Lot 144 | Meissen | RARE PORCELAIN RINSING CUP WITH KAKIEMON DECORATION FROM THE COLLECTION OF AUGUSTUS THE STRONG

RARE PORCELAIN RINSING CUP WITH KAKIEMON DECORATION FROM THE COLLECTION OF AUGUSTUS THE STRONG.

Meissen.
Date: Ca. 1728.
Technique: Porcelain, enriched in colours.
Description: Decagonal dish with a flared and slightly curved rim with ten indentations. Painted in the colours of Japanese Arita porcelain after Sakaida Kakiemon. A pair of horses between 'Indian' flowers on the wall of the beautiful bowl and a stylised pasture landscape running around the lower third of the wall. The interior is divided into ten segments by blue frames, each interrupted by two phoenix birds and two 'Indian' flower bouquets.
In the collection of Augustus the Strong, this bowl was one of seven other bowls with this decoration (cf. inventory of the Japanese Palace, 1779, chapter "Das Sächsische Porzelan", Vol II. b). The Grassimuseum in Leipzig owns another of these rinsing kummen.
Measurement: Height 9cm, ø 19,5cm.
Mark: Swords mark, painted blue under glaze. Inventory number of the Royal Porcelain Collection of the Japanese Palace N:447'w (formerly Johanneum no.).

Provenance:
Private collection Bavaria.

Literature:
Reyes, Alfredo (ed): Röbbig München. Early German porcelain, art and furnishings of the 18th century, Munich 2013. Two rinsing cups with the same decoration described and illustrated pp.135, no.15.