Lot 45
45
A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER
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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBERS N=243./W TO BOTH, DREHER'S .. TO FOOTRIM OF TEABOWL AND TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER

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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON TEABOWL AND SAUCER
CIRCA 1725-28, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBERS N=243./W TO BOTH, DREHER'S .. TO FOOTRIM OF TEABOWL AND TO FOOTRIM OF SAUCER
Painted with the 'Three Friends' pine, bamboo and flowering prunus issuing from banded hedges, brown line rims (minute flake to rim of teabowl)
Provenance
Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Japanese Palace, Dresden
With Caviglia, Lugano, from whom it was acquired in November 1987.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 15% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.

Lot Essay

For an identical treatment of this subject, see the teabowl and saucer with the same Japanese Palace inventory mark in the Hans Syz Collection illustrated by Hans Syz et. al. Catalogue of the Hans Syz Collection (Washington, D.C., 1979), no. 92. A similar example from the Otto Höffer Collection was sold (with a Japanese Kakiemon teabowl) in these Rooms on 5th July 2004, lot 37.

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