A Böttger Red Stoneware Kendi, Circa 1710-13

The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden;

Korthaus Collection, Frankfurt;

Christie’s London, December 5, 1994, lot 159

The 1770 Inventory of the Japanese Palace, Dresden lists:

“Neun und Fünfzig Stück hohe Theé Kannan, mit langen Hälsen, und kurzen Schnäutzen, davon 5. Stück mit kleinen Deckeln, 7 ½. Zoll hoch, 4. Zoll in Diam: No. 232. 1. St. fehlt, weil bey der Inventur eins zerbrochen., [ Fifty-nine high teapots, with long necks, and short snouts, of which five pieces with small lids… 1 piece missing because one broke during inventory.],

Claus Boltz, ‘Japanisches Palais- Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer- Inventar 1769’, Keramos, No. 153, 1996, p. 107.

Eight unglazed kendis with Japanese Palace number 232/R were included in the first sale of 'duplicate' animals, bird figures and wares auctioned at Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, October 7-8, 1919, lots 36-45 and two black-glazed and gilt, lots 54-55. At the second duplicates sale the following year a further nine kendi were offered: five unglazed and two with an Eisenporzellan surface, lots 59-63 and 84-85, all bearing inventory number 232/R, and two black-glazed and gilt, lots 110-111.

Lot 36 from the 1919 sale subsequently was acquired by Ole Olsen in Copenhagen. it subsequently sold at Christie’s London, May 18, 1999, lot 155 and entered the Gutter Collection, San Francisco, illustrated in Hermann Schmitz, Bild des Verkäufers für Generaldirektør Ole Olsens Kunstsamlinger. Ole Olsens Art Collections / Ole Olsens Kunstsammlungen, 1924, no. 1345 pl. XXIV; and Maria L. Santangelo, A Princely Pursuit, The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain, 2018, pp. 38-39, 241, no. 6.

One without a Japanese Palace number was in the West Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, October 17, 2017, lot 279