A Meissen Kakiemon teabowl and saucer
Circa 1728, blue enamel crossed swords marks, wheel engraved Japanese Palace inventory mark N=243./W, Dreher's .. to footrims
Painted with 'The Three Friends' pattern, with pine, prunus and bamboo issuing from behind banded hedges within brown line rims (very slight rubbing to interior of teabowl)
A Meissen Kakiemon teabowl and saucer
Circa 1728, blue enamel crossed swords marks, wheel engraved Japanese Palace inventory mark N=243./W, Dreher's .. to footrims
Painted with 'The Three Friends' pattern, with pine, prunus and bamboo issuing from behind banded hedges within brown line rims (very slight rubbing to interior of teabowl)