Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
Selected Meissen and Other Ceramics from the Collection of Henry H. Arnhold
A CHINESE CAFÉ-AU-LAIT AND GILT-GROUND INCISED FAMILLE-VERTE BOWL AND DISH QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD | 清康熙 外醬釉描金内刻花五彩荷塘鴛鴦圖盌及托盤一套
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
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2,000 - 3,000 USD
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A CHINESE CAFÉ-AU-LAIT AND GILT-GROUND INCISED FAMILLE-VERTE BOWL AND DISH QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 外醬釉描金内刻花五彩荷塘鴛鴦圖盌及托盤一套
the dish painted in the center with a large lotus blossom rising from a pond with a pair of mandarin ducks swimming nearby, the cavetto incised with lotus flowers below a diaper border at the rim reserved with cartouches decorated with flowers and insects, the exterior gilded with bamboo and prunus on a café-au-lait ground, the bowl similarly decorated, both with incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=167I
Diameter: 9¾ in.
24.9 cm
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Sotheby's Zürich, December 9, 1997, lot 155 (part lot)
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 358a&b, p. 689, illus.
The 1779 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists ‘Twelve pieces round dishes, outside brown painted with gold scrollwork and inside with flowerwork… and twelve associated cups… No. 167.’ Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York, 2008, p. 690. Three examples of bowls and four saucers, bearing No. 167, are in the Porzellansammlung, Dresden (P.O. 6444, 6446, 6447, 6477-6479, 6481).