Fine Pottery and Porcelain - 5th February 2025
Lot 1225
A small Meissen star-shaped chocolate cup stand from the Japanese Palace, c.1730-35, of
Estimate £600 - £800 | Hammer £1764
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Description
A small Meissen star-shaped chocolate cup stand from the Japanese Palace, c.1730-35, of five-petalled form, painted in Kakiemon enamels with flowering prunus and fruiting pomegranate sprays, overglaze blue crossed swords mark and incised Johanneum number N165, two filled rim chips, 11cm.
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace, Dresden, records twenty-four of an original twenty-five such dishes: 'Fünf und zwanzig Stück gemuschelte detto [Confect-Schälgen], different, mit Korn Aehren, Blumen und Vögeln, No. 165' [25 lobed ditto (confectionary dishes), different, with corn sheaves, flowers and birds]; quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 78.