Reserved with shaped panels painted with flowering plants issuing from stylised rockwork, the ground colour embellished in gilding with flowering branches and insects, a formal border of floral medallions around the neck, the domed cover similarly decorated, red-painted inventory number P.O 8941 (Dresden porcelain collection), Russian brown-painted inventory numbers cpp 1624 "a"/ KMYM and cpc 1625 "a"/ KMYM, traces of Hausmarschallamt no. I 47, 46cm high (restored) (2)
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Provenance:Royal Collections of Saxony, Residenzschloss Dresden, Turmzimmer (by 1769);Property of the Free State of Saxony, 1918;Property of the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.V.), Schloss Moritzburg, from 1924;Confiscated in 1945, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, inv. no. PO 8941;Restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony (Haus Wettin, Albertinische Linie e.V.) in 1999, by whom sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam, 16-17 October 2001, lot 84Literature:Anette Loesch, Das Porzellankabinett im Hausmannsturm des Dresdener Residenzschlosses (2019), p. 53, ill. 15 (historic photograph)This vase was originally part of a garniture of seven vases in the collection of Augustus the Strong displayed in the Turmzimmer of the Dresden Residence in the 18th century (of the approximately 680 objects on display in the Turmzimmer, only 40 were Chinese or Japanese porcelain). Three survived the Second World War and were restituted to the former Royal family of Saxony in 1999 (Loesch, ills. 14 and 15). Three of the missing vases are recorded in historic photographs (Loesch, nos. 80-82, where it is noted that in 1924 they were moved from the Turmzimmer to the Dantezimmer on the second floor of the Residence, which was used as a storeroom).