A Meissen porcelain Kakiemon 'Gelber Löwe' circular bowl, cover and stand, circa 1741-45

Anonymous sale, Daguerre, Drouot, Paris, 9 June 2010, lot 78;

Acquired at the above sale.

See Ulrich Pietsch and Claudia Banz, "From the 'Yellow Lion' to the 'Blue Band': Famous Eighteenth Century Meissen Dinner Services’, in Triumph of the Blue Swords, Meissen Porcelain for Aristocracy and Bourgeoisie 1710-1815, Dresden, 2010, pp. 95-105 for a discussion of the ‘Gelber Löwe' service, where the author notes that ‘In the Japanese Palace a ‘Table Room with Lion Porcelain’ was especially set aside for it around 1730’ and that a service of this pattern was sent as gift to Johannes Lipski (1690-1746), the Prince Bishop of Cracow, in 1736/37. 

A large composite ‘Gelber Löwe' service with 'Alt Brandenstein' borders was assembled by Ann and Gordon Getty, and was subsequently sold at Christie’s, New York, 22 October 2022, lot 407. The service included two round bowls like the present lot, which along with other pieces, according to the catalogue entry, were likely acquired by Walter Hayes Burns and his wife Mary Lynam Burns (née Morgan, daughter of the banker Junius Spencer Morgan) for North Mymms Park, in the late 19th century.