Lot Essay
Two Chinese examples are in the Porzellansammlung Dresden, illustrated by Ulrich Pietsch, Meissener Porzellan und siene Ostasiatischen Vorbilder (1996), pls. 46 and 47 together with a Meissen example.
There are three Meissen examples in Dresden with Japanese Palace inventory numbers with different handles and spouts. See Otto Walcha, Meissener Porzellan (1973), pl. 36 and p.465, no. 22 for two of the examples. The first formed as a teapot with fish head spout, the second with plain spout and handle. The present example with similarly moulded body to the other examples but with dolphin-head spout and shorter fish-tail handle.
The use of the blue enamel crossed swords mark would suggest that this piece was intended for Lemaire.
There are three Meissen examples in Dresden with Japanese Palace inventory numbers with different handles and spouts. See Otto Walcha, Meissener Porzellan (1973), pl. 36 and p.465, no. 22 for two of the examples. The first formed as a teapot with fish head spout, the second with plain spout and handle. The present example with similarly moulded body to the other examples but with dolphin-head spout and shorter fish-tail handle.
The use of the blue enamel crossed swords mark would suggest that this piece was intended for Lemaire.