Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
Lot 91
A Meissen saucer dish, circa 1730, with later armorial
14 June 2017, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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Nette Megens
Head of Department, Director
Sophie von der Goltz
Head of Sale
A Meissen saucer dish, circa 1730, with later armorial
Of deep lobed form, painted with three flower sprigs in Kakiemon style, the centre later decorated (after 1770) with the crowned arms of Saxony, 14.7cm across, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=336./ W
Footnotes
Provenance:
Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Part of the large order of porcelain mostly copying Japanese originals that was placed by the Paris merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and which was subsequently seized and incorporated into Augustus the Strong's collections in the Japanese Palace. The 1770 inventory lists 85 such saucers (for chocolate beakers) without mention of the arms. A similar dish, along with another with the arms of Poland, is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), nos. 103a and b).
