CIRCA 1728, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, ERASED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER TO BOTH

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A MEISSEN PORCELAIN KAKIEMON TWO-HANDLED CIRCULAR TUREEN AND COVER
CIRCA 1728, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK, ERASED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER TO BOTH
With fish handles to the tureen and cover, painted with phoenixes and flowering shrubs issuing from banded hedges
12 3⁄4 in. (32.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

R.G. Vater Collection no. 551 (paper collection label attached to interior of cover).

A tureen and cover with similar fish handles is illustrated by Rainer Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710-1810, Munich, 1966, pl. 76, no. 296. An example from the Korthaus Collection, Frankfurt, was sold by Christie's, London, on 21 September 1992, lot 22 and again by Bonhams, London, on 22 July 2020, lot 74.

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