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 GROUP OF PORCELAIN WARES LATE 17TH CENTURY/18TH CENTURY | 十七世紀末/ 十八世紀 瓷器四件 磁器 四点、17世紀後期-18世紀
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
Estimate
700 - 1,000 USD
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A GROUP OF PORCELAIN WARES LATE 17TH CENTURY/18TH CENTURY
十七世紀末/ 十八世紀 瓷器四件
磁器 四点、17世紀後期-18世紀
comprising a Chinese blue and white wine cup painted with flowers, and possibly later decorated in Europe, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N-142-+, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period; a Japanese Arita octagonal saucer painted with panels of chrysanthemum, lotus, prunus and other flowers, Edo Period, late 17th Century; a Meissen saucer painted with shishi, and a Meissen two-handled cup, the handles formed of birds heads, painted in the Gelber Löwe pattern, crossed swords marks in underglaze-blue. 4 pieces.
Height of Meissen cup: 2⅝ in.
6.7 cm
The Chinese wine cup:
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
Gift of Peter Rosenberg, Vallin Galleries, Wilton
The Japanese octagonal saucer:
Andreina Torre Collection, Zürich
Sotheby's London, November 18, 1996, lot 15
The Chinese wine cup: Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 371, p. 709, illus.
The Japanese Octagonal saucer: Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 373, p. 711, illus.
For the small Chinese wine cup, the 1779 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists ‘Six pair of the same blue and gold small teacups painted with flowers and blue rims, No. 142’ Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50, New York, 2008, p. 709. A second example of the Meissen two-handled cup was sold at Christie's New York, April 27, 1984, lot 42.