Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
Lot 87
A Meissen circular dish from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730
1 December 2025, 13:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£20,000 - £30,000
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Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Raphael Machiels
Associate Specialist
A Meissen circular dish from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730
Painted in Kakiemon style with a phoenix in flight opposite flowering branches issuing from banded hedges, 22.6cm wide, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N-69 / W
Footnotes
Provenance
Part of the order of Meissen porcelain for the Paris merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and subsequently (in 1731) incorporated into the Royal collections of Saxony in the Japanese Palace in Dresden
C. Sebastian, Esq.
With the Antique Porcelain Company, New York
The Hoffmeister Collection, Hamburg, acquired from the above in 1973, sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2010, lot 28
Literature
Hoffmeister, Dieter, Meissener Porzellan des 18. Jahrhunderts, Vol.I, 1999, no.125
White, Mary, 'A Chelsea blue and white plate and its origins', ECC Trans, Vol.24, 2013, fig.16
White, Mary, Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.158-9, fig.b
Exhibited
M H de Young Museum, San Francisco, Continental table porcelains of the Eighteenth Century, 25 October to 6 December 1965
Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, The Hoffmeister Collection, 1999-2009
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records 'Eilf Stück detto [runde tiefe Schaalen, inwendig mit Vögeln, Blumen und bunten Korn gemahlt], differenter Größe, zu 9 1/2. Zoll tief [probably 1 1/2 Zoll], 9. Zoll in Diam: No 69' [11 pieces ditto (round deep dishes, painted inside with birds, flowers und coloured corn), various sizes, to [1 1/2] zoll deep, 9 zoll diam.] (quoted by C. Boltz, 'Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769', in Keramos, 153, 1996, p.74). Two similar dishes with the same Japanese Palace inventory number are in the Dr. Ernst Schneider Collection, Schloss Lustheim (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Vol.II, 2013, nos.202 and 203.
Mary White notes how 'triumphantly successful' a copy of the Japanese original this lot is, see Eating at the Whites' House, Vol.3, 2022, p.158, and compare to lot 86.
Important Notice to Buyers
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