Fine Pottery and Porcelain - 5th February 2025
Lot 1230
A good Meissen flat dish or plate from the Japanese Palace, c.1730, of unusual flat form, boldly
Estimate £1,000 - £2,000 | Hammer £3150
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Description
A good Meissen flat dish or plate from the Japanese Palace, c.1730, of unusual flat form, boldly enamelled with three sprays of indianische Blumen in a strong Kakiemon palette, incised Johanneum number N-71 W, 18.8cm.
Cf. Bonhams, The Hoffmeister Collection, 26th May 2010, lot 21 for a larger dish with similar decoration.
Part of the order of Meissen porcelain for the Paris merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and subsequently - in 1731- incorporated into the Royal collections of Saxony in the Japanese Palace in Dresden
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records under no. 71: 'Eilf Stück weiße flache Teller, mit Blümgen gemahlt, 3/4. Zoll tief, 8 1/2. Zoll in Diam' [eleven white flat plates, painted with flowers...](quoted by C/ Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 74. The inventory notes that one of the eleven plates was broken.