A rare Meissen dish from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730, painted in the Kakiemon style with three flower sprigs, the reverse incised with the Japanese Palace inventory number.
Dimensions
18.7cm diameter
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This dish would have been part of large quantity of Meissen copies of Japanese and Chinese porcelain ordered by the Parisian merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and subsequently seized and incorporated into the Saxon royal collection in the Japanese Palace in Dresden in 1731.
The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace records note that there were ‘eleven white flat plates, painted with flowers…’ and that one of these was broken.
One other example of this rare small size (with a crack) was sold in the auction of property from the former Royal collections of Saxony in Dresden, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, 12-14 October 1920, lot 159.
