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CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=40_ W
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A MEISSEN KAKIEMON DECAGONAL DISH
CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=40_ W
Decorated in the Kakiemon palette and enriched in gilding, with bamboo and flowering branches of prunus and chrysanthemum, a pheonix perched on one of the blue branches, a pheonix in flight nearby, within a foliate band border and brown line rim
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) wide
CIRCA 1730, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARK, WHEEL-ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NUMBER N=40_ W
Decorated in the Kakiemon palette and enriched in gilding, with bamboo and flowering branches of prunus and chrysanthemum, a pheonix perched on one of the blue branches, a pheonix in flight nearby, within a foliate band border and brown line rim
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) wide
Provenance
Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Japanese Palace, Dresden
The Property of a Gentleman, sale Sotheby's Zürich, 2nd December 1981, lot 32.
The Property of a Gentleman, sale Sotheby's Zürich, 2nd December 1981, lot 32.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium