Painted in enamels and gilding in Kakiemon style, the exterior with a figure holding a flower alternating with flowers issuing from banded hedges, the interior with two figures of a boy pulling a lotus flower on a cord, alternating with two shi-shi or lion-like creatures, the brown-edged rim with a border of scrolling foliage and flowers, 24.5cm across; 10.9cm high, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=254/ W (discoloured crazing to glaze)
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Provenance:Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, DresdenThe 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records: 'Vierzehn Stück detto 10.eckichte Spühl-N?pfe, mit Pagoden, Blumen und blauen Fratzen, 4 1/2. Zoll hoch, 9 1/2. Zoll in Diam: No. 254 1. Stück fehlt' [Fourteen ditto 10-sided rinsing bowls, with pagodas, flowers and blue figures [...] one missing]; quoted by C. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1768, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 253. A similar bowl marked with the same inventory number remains in the Dresden porcelain collection (PE 621) and another is published by H. Jedding, Meissener Porzellan in Hamburger Privatbesitz (1982), no. 112.The Japanese bowl that served as a model for this bowl entered the collection of Augustus the Strong in March 1723 (J. Weber, Mei?ener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, I (2013), p. 25, ill. 5). It is a measure of the value that Augustus attached to that bowl, and a handful of other pieces decorated in underglaze-blue and enamels, that he must have ordered Meissen to make copies within a very short time. An entry in the inventory of the then Holl?ndisches Palais (known as the Japanisches Palais from 1727) shows that a Meissen copy was delivered only seven months later: 'Anno 1723 in October ist dem Porc. Gew?lbe anhero geliefert worden No. 69 Ein 10eckigter wie Krack Porc: gemahlter Spül Napff mit überschlagenen braunen Rande' [in October 1723 no. 69 a ten-sided rinsing bowl with everted rim painted like Kraak (ie Japanese) porcelain was delivered to the Porcelain Vaults]. It is a further indication of the importance Augustus attached to porcelain in this style that the Meissen bowl was selected in 1725 for the large gift of porcelain to Augustus' friend, Vittorio Amadeo, the King of Sardinia; it was sold by his heirs in 1968 and again in these Rooms on 18 June 2014, lot 44. A closely similar Japanese bowl, formerly in the Royal collections of Saxony (Japanese Palace inv. no. 94), is in the Idemitsu Museum of Arts, Tokyo (Weber, ibid.); another, without inventory number is published by M. Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten 'Kakiemonstil' als Vorbild für die Mei?ener Porzellanmanufaktur (1973), ill. 128, along with a similar Meissen example (with crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue), ill. 129.The present lot belonged to the large group of copies of mostly Japanese porcelain that was made for the Paris merchant, Lemaire, between 1729-31 and was subsequently confiscated and incorporated into the collections of Augustus the Strong in the Japanese Palace. A ten-sided rinsing bowl of "old Indian porcelain" was among the Asian porcelain removed from the collection of Augustus the Strong on 28 November 1729 to serve as models for the porcelain ordered by Lemaire (C. Boltz, Hoym, Lemaire und Meissen, in Keramos 88 (1980), p. 16.