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Lot 45
A rare Meissen circular dish, circa 1730
3 December 2020, 14:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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A rare Meissen circular dish, circa 1730
Painted in gilding and enamels with a willow tree and lotus flowers in the centre within a trellis border reserved with flower panels and chrysanthemums, the gilt-edged rim decorated with sprays of peonies below a similar trellis band, the reverse with flowering branches in iron-red below a floral trellis band, 21cm diam., crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Japanese Palace inventory mark N=5-/ W
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Provenance:
The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records: "Acht Stück kleine Saladieren, mit bunten Korn und Blumen à la mosaique gemahlt, 1 1/2. Zoll tief, 8 3/4. Zoll in Diam: [Eight small salad dishes, painted with coloured grain and flowers à la mosaique...]" (quoted by C. Bolz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 72).
Two with Japanese Palace inventory marks were sold in the second sale of duplicates from the Johanneum, Lepke's Berlin, 12 October 1920, lots 143 and 144, of which one is not illustrated (possibly the present lot). Two further dishes without inventory marks were in the first duplicates sale from the Johanneum, Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, 7-8 October 1919, lots 148 and 149.