
Sebastian Kuhn
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A similar dish but with the two patterns reversed was in the Titgemeyer Collection, sold in these rooms, 7 December 2011, lot 143.
A similar smaller dish, formerly in the Fritz Mannheimer Collection, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, (see A.L. Den Blaauwen Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), cat.no. 154). It is mentioned that the model occurs in the price list of the factory in 1731, and is described as 'Ovale Platte Muscheln zum Confect in Form eines doppelten Blattes' [Oval dish for confectionery in form of a double leaf]. Another similar, but later dish is in the Ernst Schneider Collection at Schloss Lustheim, published in Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), p. 303, no. 286.
Two similar leaf-shaped dishes with flowers and brocade pattern of around 1730 made for the French merchant, Rodolphe Lemaire, survive in the Dresden porcelain collection (G. Le Duc, Rodolphe Lemaire und das Meissner Porzellan. Fernöstlicher Stil oder Französischer Geschmack?, in Keramos 158 (1997), ill. 13). These are referred to in the 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace as "...Auster-Schaalen, in Form eines doppelten Blatts..." [oyster dishes in the form of a double-leaf]. The shape is based on a Japanese dish from the collection of Augustus the Strong, which was referred to in 1729 as a "Confect Schaale" [confectionary dish] (See J. Weber, vol. II (2013), p. 155).