
Sebastian Kuhn
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A similar candlestick with the Japanese Palace inventory number N-221/ W is in the Porcelain Collection in Dresden,
inv. no. PE 5131. The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records under this inventory number 'Zwölf Stück Tafel-Leuchter, mit vergoldten Rändern, und kleinen Blumen nach Indianis. Mahlerey, 10 1/2. Zoll hoch' [twelve candlesticks with gilt rims and small flowers after Indian painting]. According to a delivery specification thirty such large candlesticks were delivered to the Japanese Palace in 1737 (quoted by C. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 82 and p. 98). It is very likely that the palace inventory number 221 was ground off the base of these two candlesticks.