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Lot 258

A Meissen plate from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730

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

£4,000 - £6,000

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A Meissen plate from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730

Painted in Kakiemon style in enamels and gilding with a tiger opposite flowering bamboo, 23.4cm diam., crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=72_/ W, incised // inside footrim (restored chip to rim)

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Provenance:
The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;
Anon. sale, Phillips London, 1 December 1993, lot 46

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace in Dresden lists: 'Eilf Dutzendt und (8.) 5. Stück Teller, mit roth und goldenen Löwen auch einem Bouquetm alt Indianische Mahlerey, 1 1/2. Zoll tief, 9 1/2. Zoll in Diam.' [eleven dozen and (8) 5 plates, with a red and gold lion also a bouquet old Indian painting, 1 1/2 zoll deep, 9 1/2 zoll diam.] (quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 74).

Augustus the Strong owned two Japanese plates in this pattern, which were used as sources for the Meissen examples. One of these is now in the collection of the Grassimuseum in Leipzig. See J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), pp. 290-294 for a full discussion of the pattern and an example in the Ernst Schneider Collection. Another plate was in the Hoffmeister Collection, sold in these rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 23.

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