CIRCA 1730, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

The decagonal form of this bowl is taken from a Japanese original that entered the collection of Augustus the Strong in March 1723. The shape was copied by Meissen within a short time, with a ten-sided bowl being recorded as delivered to the Japanese Palace only seven months later in October 1723. A Japanese example of this form, formerly in the Royal collections of Saxony, is in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, illustrated by Julia Weber, Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, Vol. I, Munich, 2013, p. 25, pl. 5, together with its Meissen counterpart, pls. 6 a, b. Two bowls ten-sided examples with the same decoration as the present lot are illustrated Ulrich Pietsch et al, 'Frühes Meissener Porzellan, Kostbarkeiten aus deutschen Privatsammlungen' Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf and Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, Dresden Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 1997, p. 135, no. 92.