THE MEISSEN TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1725, TEABOWL WITH ENAMEL BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, BOTH WITH IMPRESSED .. MARKS AND WHEEL ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY MARKS, TEABOWL WITH N=243, SAUCER WITH N243 W, THE JAPANESE TEABOWL LATE 17TH CENTURY, WITH WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY N=75- RECTANGLE MARK

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A Meissen Kakiemon teabowl and saucer and a Japanese Kakiemon teabowl
THE MEISSEN TEABOWL AND SAUCER CIRCA 1725, TEABOWL WITH ENAMEL BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, BOTH WITH IMPRESSED .. MARKS AND WHEEL ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY MARKS, TEABOWL WITH N=243, SAUCER WITH N243 W, THE JAPANESE TEABOWL LATE 17TH CENTURY, WITH WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY N=75- RECTANGLE MARK
The Meissen teabowl and saucer painted in the typical palette with flowering shrubs issuing from two banded hedges, the flowers enriched with gilding, the interior of the teabowl with a flower-spray, with brown line rims (teabowl with small shallow chip to side of footrim, saucer with some areas of wear); the Japanese teabowl of slightly more flared form, similarly decorated with flowering shrubs issuing from two banded hedges, the reverse with a flowering branch, the interior with a stylised flowerhead (broken through and restuck)

Provenance

Anon., sale Sotheby's Zürich, 22nd May 1981, lot 3.

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Lot Essay

For an identical treatment of this subject, see the teabowl and saucer with the same Japanese Palace inventory mark in the Hans Syz Collection illustrated by Hans Syz et. al. Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C., 1979), no. 92. The relationship of the design of these pieces is particularly interesting as both the Japanese teabowl and Meissen teabowl and saucer belonged to Augustus The Strong.

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