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A Chinese Dehua white saucer from the Japanese Palace, Dresden, circa 1700 image 1
A Chinese Dehua white saucer from the Japanese Palace, Dresden, circa 1700 image 2
Lot 219

A Chinese Dehua white saucer from the Japanese Palace, Dresden, circa 1700

6 December 2018, 16:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A Chinese Dehua white saucer from the Japanese Palace, Dresden, circa 1700

The underside moulded with twelve petal lobes, 12.1cm diam., incised Japanese Palace inventory number N = 83- above a triangle, Schloss Moritzburg inventory number I.A. 130/b in red-brown lacquer, Dresden Porzellansammlung inv. no. P.O. 690. in red

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Provenance:
The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden, by 1721;
Property of the Free State of Saxony, 1918;
Property of the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.v.) from 1924;
Probably moved to Schloss Moritzburg, Saxony, circa 1925 (bearing the Schloss Moritzburg inventory red-lacquered no. I.A. 130/b);
Confiscated in 1945 and incorporated into the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Inv. no. P.O. 690;
Restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie) in 1994;
Sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16-17 October 2001, lot 124 (one of two - see below)

The 1721 Inventory of the Dresden collection lists under 'Weiss Chinesisch Porcelain', no. 83, 4 Ddt 4. stk runde gemuschelte Schaalen. 1. Z. tieff. 5. Z indiam [4 doz. 4 pcs. round scalloped saucers, 1 Z. deep, 5 Z. diam] (quoted by M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), no. 347 (an identical saucer with the same Japanese Palace inventory number and immediately preceding Schloss Moritzburg and Dresden Porcelain collection painted inventory numbers ), n.1). The same number of saucers were listed in the 1779 inventory, and two - including the present lot and the example in the Arnhold Collection - were restituted to the Wettin family, and three remain in the Porcelain Collection in Dresden.

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