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Lot 31

A rare Meissen dish from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730

6 December 2018, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare Meissen dish from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730

Painted in Kakiemon style with three flower sprigs, 18.7cm diam., incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=71-/ W (two flat chips to back of rim, some tiny spots of flaking)

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Provenance:
Part of the order of Meissen porcelain for the Paris merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and subsequently - in 1731- incorporated into the Royal collections of Saxony in the Japanese Palace in Dresden

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records under no. 71: 'Eilf Stück weiße flache Teller, mit Blümgen gemahlt, 3/4. Zoll tief, 8 1/2. Zoll in Diam' [eleven white flat plates, painted with flowers...](quoted by C/ Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 74. The inventory notes that one of the eleven plates was broken.

One other example of this rare small size (with a crack) was sold in the auction of property from the former Royal collections of Saxony in Dresden, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 12-14 October 1920, lot 159.

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