Lot 1061 - A202 Decorative Arts - Thursday, 22. September 2022, 10.00 AM
CUP AND SAUCER WITH KAKIEMON DECORATION
Meissen, ca. 1729-31. With Johanneum number N=343-/W, inventory number of the Japanese Palace.
Based on a Japanese Kakiemon model from the Edo period. Blue enamel swords in overglaze and Johanneum number N=343w incised and blackened. Incised mark / in the foot ring of the saucer, potter's mark .. for Johann Martin Kittel (1706-1762) impressed on both items.
H 6 cm, Ø 13.5 cm.
Provenance:
- Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, Japanese Palace, Dresden.
- private collection Switzerland, acquired from a Swiss art dealer in 2000.
Comparative items:
Dresden State Collections (Inv. No. PE 5194); Schneider Collection, Lustheim (Weber 2013, Vol. II, p. 145, Cat. No. 118); From the Royal Saxon Collections (Rudolph Lepke, 7-8 October 1919, Lot Nos. 163-171).
The enamel swords in the overglaze and the Johanneum number on this cup point at its provenance from the Royal Collections in Dresden. In the aftermath of the Lemaire Affair concerning Meissen porcelains decorated with East Asian motifs for the Parisian market, but sold as Chinese and Japanese originals, in 1731, after the discovery of the fraud, during the vacation of the house of the Meissen Manufactory Director Count Hoym, inter alia, 42 examples of these two-handled coffee cups came to light, which were inventoried for the Japanese Palace with numbers between 261 and 344 for safe-keeping (Boltz, Japanisches Palais Inventar, Keramos 153, 1996, p. 57; Weber 2019, p. 146).
- Augustus II, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland, Japanese Palace, Dresden.
- private collection Switzerland, acquired from a Swiss art dealer in 2000.
Comparative items:
Dresden State Collections (Inv. No. PE 5194); Schneider Collection, Lustheim (Weber 2013, Vol. II, p. 145, Cat. No. 118); From the Royal Saxon Collections (Rudolph Lepke, 7-8 October 1919, Lot Nos. 163-171).
The enamel swords in the overglaze and the Johanneum number on this cup point at its provenance from the Royal Collections in Dresden. In the aftermath of the Lemaire Affair concerning Meissen porcelains decorated with East Asian motifs for the Parisian market, but sold as Chinese and Japanese originals, in 1731, after the discovery of the fraud, during the vacation of the house of the Meissen Manufactory Director Count Hoym, inter alia, 42 examples of these two-handled coffee cups came to light, which were inventoried for the Japanese Palace with numbers between 261 and 344 for safe-keeping (Boltz, Japanisches Palais Inventar, Keramos 153, 1996, p. 57; Weber 2019, p. 146).
CHF 7 000 / 9 000 | (€ 7 220 / 9 280)
Sold for CHF 16 160 (including buyer’s premium)
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