A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BEAKER AND A SAUCER AND A BEAKER SIMILAR

CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO EACH, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=333_/W TO CUP AND BEAKER WITH POMEGRANATES, N=334/W TO BEAKER, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE AND MARKS

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON BEAKER AND A SAUCER AND A BEAKER SIMILAR
CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS TO EACH, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=333_/W TO CUP AND BEAKER WITH POMEGRANATES, N=334/W TO BEAKER, DREHER'S QUARTERED CIRCLE AND MARKS
The tapering cylindrical beaker and a saucer painted and gilt with a vignette of two pomegranates issuing from a leafy branch and further Oriental flowersprays, within brown line rims and a similar beaker painted with scattered flowerheads (small chip to saucer, minute wear to enamels) (3)

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For two similar beakers in each pattern see Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan, Munich, 1966, p. 67, nos. 251 and 252. The 1779 Japanese Palace Inventory notes 'Fifty-four various chocolate beakers on their own painted with various flowers, 2¾ inches in height, 3¼ in. in diametre no. 334', see Ulrich Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain, the Wark Collection, London, 2011, p. 271, nos. 268-269 for two similar beakers decorated with scattered flowerheads.

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