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Lot 33

A Meissen circular dish, circa 1730

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

£700 - £900

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A Meissen circular dish, circa 1730

Painted in Kakiemon style with the "Gelber Löwe" pattern of a tiger curling around bamboo opposite flowering prunus, brown-edged rim, 23.5cm diam, crossed swords mark in blue, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=8-/ W (haircracks, small rim chip)

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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 Saxon collections in the Japanese Palace in Dresden;
British Private Collection, assembled in the 1950s and 1960s

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists 60 such dishes of various sizes with the 'Gelber Löwe' pattern; another, of the same size and with the same Japanese Palace inventory number, was sold in these Rooms, 18 June 2014, lot 59.

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