CIRCA 1710-13, JAPANESE PALACE BLACK ENAMEL 177. / R · INVENTORY NUMBER TO BASE

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A BÖTTGER RED STONEWARE CUP
CIRCA 1710-13, JAPANESE PALACE BLACK ENAMEL 177. / R · INVENTORY NUMBER TO BASE
Designed by J.J. Irminger, with a matt sponged surface, finely potted with a flared rim and on a stepped moulded foot, the upper part of the handle moulded with a scroll

Provenance

Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (1670-1733), Japanese Palace, Dresden,
and by descent in the Royal Collections of Saxony;
Probably moved from the Japanese Palace to the Johanneum, Dresden, in 1876.
Property of the Free State of Saxony, 1918.
Staatssammlungen sale, Lepke, Berlin, 12 October 1920, lot 91.
Rudolf Weigang Collection, No. 1 (according to the paper label attached to the underside).

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Lot Essay

In the Japanese Palace inventories, the numbers for red stoneware pieces were accompanied by an R for Roth. Four separate rooms in the palace were dedicated to the display of ‘Saxon porcelain’, two of which were used to display red stoneware. For a discussion of the palace interiors and its three 18th century inventories, see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, "’…a wholly new style of porcelain…’; Lacquer-Style Production at the Meissen Manufactory” in 'Schwartz Porcelain', Museum für Lackkunst December and Schloβ Favorite bei Rastatt 2003-2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2003 (English Edition, Munich, 2004, pp. 73-77).

A cracked example was sold by Christie's Geneva on 14th November 1983, lot 179. A two-handled beaker with an Eisenporzellan finish to the glaze and with handles identical in form to the present lot remains in the Saxon Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (inventory P.E. 1784), and is illustrated by Willi Goder et al., Johann Friedrich Böttger die Erfindung des Europäischen Porzellans, Leipzig, 1982, pl. 88.

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