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A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and saucer, circa 1730-35 image 1
A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and saucer, circa 1730-35 image 2
Lot 259

A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and saucer, circa 1735

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

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A Meissen yellow-ground pouring cup and saucer, circa 1735

Each side of the cup reserved with a quatrelobe panel painted in Kakiemon style, one side with a heron beside flowering branches and a bamboo fence, the other with a heron in flight overhead, the two-handled saucer similarly decorated, the rims with borders of stylised flowerheads on a green ground interspersed with four panels depicting bamboo branches, the saucer: 20cm across handles, AR in underglaze-blue and impressed Dreher's mark for Johann Martin Kittel to saucer, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue and impressed Dreher's mark for Johann Christoph Pietzsch to cup (restored chip to rim on saucer) (2)

Footnotes

Cups with spouts of this shape first appeared in the 1720s. Saucers with two handles however are first recorded in 1732/33, when examples of this shape were delivered to the Japanese Palace. Julia Weber notes that yellow-ground examples appeared in 1734 at the latest, as Augustus III gave to Wilhelm VIII von Hessen-Kassel '12 Schälgen mit Henkel und gelber Glasur' [12 small bowls with handles and yellow glaze] and '12 Copgen dazu mit Schnautzen' [12 teabowls to this with spouts]. See J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), p.421, no. 433 for another yellow-ground pouring cup and saucer with different Kakiemon decoration and a discussion of the shape.

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