CIRCA 1728, BLUE ENAMEL CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, WHEEL ENGRAVED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY MARKS FOR N=365 / W HEIGHTENED IN BLACK ENAMEL TO CUP AND SAUCER

The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists sixty-four cups and sixty-three saucers of this type ('geschwiffte Theé Tassen, mit einem Henckel, mit Rothen Vögeln und Blümgen gemahlt [...] detto Unterschaalen') under no. 365, which is recorded by Claus Boltz, 'Japanaisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769', Keramos 153, 1996, p. 58. Another cup of this type is illustrated by Armin B. Allen, Eighteenth Century Meissen Porcelain From the Collection of Gertrude J. and Robert T. Anderson, Exhibition catalogue, Orlando Museum of Art, 1988-1989, Orlando, 1988, p. 61, no. 27. Another example, previously in the Kahlenberg Collection, was sold at Bonhams in London on 12 December 2012, lot 29.