CIRCA 1728-1730, OVERGLAZE BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARKS, WHEEL-ENGRAVED AND BLACKENED JAPANESE PALACE INVENTORY NO. N=341-W TO EACH

The present lot is part of a group of thirty-eight teabowls and saucers decorated for Augustus II after an original piece hailing from the Japanese Kakiemon Sakaida manufactory in Arita. The inventory entry for this group at the Japanese Palace from 1779 reads: "Thirty-eight shell-shaped teabowls painted with pagods, 2¹⁄₄ inches in height, 3 inches in diameter, no. 362. With thirty-eight shell-shaped saucers, 1 inch in depth, 5 inches in diameter, somewhat damaged, no. 362" (see U. Pietsch, Early Meissen Porcelain: The Wark Collection from the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, 2011, p. 291). Another example can be found in the Hans C. Syz Collection at the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (ID No. 1983.0565.08ab). See also Property of the Heirs of Margarethe and Franz Oppenheimer; Sotheby's, New York, 14 September 2021, lot 31, and the Said and Roswitha Marouf Collection, La Jolla; Bonhams, London, 15 June 2016, lot 117.