Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 88
A Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1730
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £4,375 inc. premium
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen cup and saucer, circa 1730
Of barbed quatrefoil form, painted in Kakiemon style with an iron-red and gilt phoenix and a coloured sprig of indianische Blumen, crossed swords marks in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory numbers N=365-/ W (2)
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace. Dresden
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists sixty-four cups and sixty-three saucers of this type ('geschweiffte Theé Tassen, mit einem Henckel, mit Rothen Vögeln und Blümgen gemahlt [...] detto Unterschaalen') under no. 365 (quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanaisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769. Keramos 153 (1996), p. 58. A similar example was sold in these Rooms, 12 December 2012, lot 29.
