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 RARE CHINESE DUTCH-DECORATED BEAKER AND SAUCER THE PORCELAIN QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD, THE DECORATION BEFORE 1721 | 清康熙 白釉荷蘭後加彩花蝶圖仰鐘式盃連盞
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October 24, 05:26 PM GMT
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1,000 - 1,500 USD
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A RARE CHINESE DUTCH-DECORATED BEAKER AND SAUCER THE PORCELAIN QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD, THE DECORATION BEFORE 1721
清康熙 白釉荷蘭後加彩花蝶圖仰鐘式盃連盞
the beaker set on a slightly tapered foot rising to rounded sides and a flaring rim, the exterior later decorated in 'fine-line' style with a large central basket of flowers with insects, the reverse with a fluttering butterfly, the saucer similarly decorated, the base of both with a lozenge mark within a double-circle and incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=64.☐.
Diameter of saucer: 5⅜ in.
13.7 cm
The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden
E. & H. Manners London, June 2006
Cassidy-Geiger, 2008, no. 307, p. 613, illus.
An identical example in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, is illustrated in Helen Espir, European Decoration On Oriental Porcelain, 1700-1830, London, 2005, p. 115, and the author notes that this type is of 'outstanding quality and rarity'. Painted in a distinctive 'fine-line' style previously only seen in Chinese porcelain, the present example shows European flowers in a Chinese style vase. The author further suggests that the hand which decorated the example in Dresden might perhaps be a German trained enameller working in Holland.
The 1721 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists ‘N=64☐. 6 similar saucer and cups of equal height and width with different patterns’ Espir, 2005, p. 117.