A matched Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer from the Japanese Palace, c.1730, painted in Kakiemon

A matched Meissen chocolate beaker and saucer from the Japanese Palace, c.1730, painted in Kakiemon enamels, the beaker with the Two Quail pattern, the saucer with flowering Oriental plants, overglaze blue crossed swords marks and incised Johanneum inventory marks N326-W and N360-W, 14.6cm. (2)

Under 326, the palace inventory records 'a dozen and eight round chocolate beakers with coloured flowers and partridges, with seven similar saucers'.