Description
61. Two Meissen plates, circa 1740-50
Decorated in Imari-style with underglaze-blue plants and insects overpainted with polychrome enamels and gilding, the rims with a frieze of half-honeycombs and prunus blossom reserves, 23.3cm diam., crossed swords mark with "K" and "4." in underglaze-blue (2)
Provenance
Jakob Goldschmidt Collection, Villa Goldschmidt, Potsdam;
Confiscated in February 1941 and sold at Hans W. Lange, Berlin, 25 September 1941, lot 147 (part)
Based on a Chinese Imari service purchased for the collection of Augustus the Strong in or shortly after 1727. The first Meissen copies were delivered to the Japanese Palace afte July 1728 (J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, 2013, p. 58, and ill. 8 for a Chinese example).
This lot is sold subject to an agreement between the vendor and the heirs of Jakob Goldschmidt.
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