A MEISSEN KAKIEMON DODECAGONAL BOWL, the exterior painted with galloping horses beside flowering plants, the interior with each side outlined in blue and with two circling phoenix alternating with two flower-sprays, the flat border with utensils joined by tied tassels within a high lobed chocolate rim (base cracked extending into sides, one lobe with rim repair and filled rivet holes), blue enamel crossed swords mark, incised Johanneum number N=447-/W, Dreher's 1195, circa 1728

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON DODECAGONAL BOWL, the exterior painted with galloping horses beside flowering plants, the interior with each side outlined in blue and with two circling phoenix alternating with two flower-sprays, the flat border with utensils joined by tied tassels within a high lobed chocolate rim (base cracked extending into sides, one lobe with rim repair and filled rivet holes), blue enamel crossed swords mark, incised Johanneum number N=447-/W, Dreher's 1195, circa 1728
20cm. diam.

Lot Essay

Cf. John Ayers, Oliver Impey, J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces, The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, p. 170 for a Japanese ormolu-mounted kakiemon bowl in the Ashmoleon Museum, Oxford of similar form and with similar decoration

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