A Meissen porcelain Kakiemon large circular bowl, circa 1730-35

Bowls of this form decorated in the present pattern were among the porcelains owned by Augustus the Strong. The pattern is discussed by Julia Weber in Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, Stiftung Ernst Schneider in Schloss Lustheim, Band II, Munich, 2013, pp. 231–235, where the author illustrates two Meissen lobed bowls painted in the same pattern and bearing the Japanese Palace inventory number N=249/W. Weber observes that the decoration ultimately derives from a Japanese prototype formerly in Augustus the Strong’s collection, which appears to have served as the direct model for Meissen painters, even though no corresponding example survives today in the Dresden porcelain holdings. Indeed, bowls described in the inventories of goods confiscated during the Hoym-Lemaire affair of 1731 appear to closely correspond to this decoration. A related lobed Japanese prototype is preserved in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, obj. no. BK-1968-253.

Another slightly smaller circular bowl, measuring 21.5 cm in diameter, bearing the Japanese Palace inventory number N=28/W and a cover with number N=29/W, was formerly in the collection of Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1899–1987), and was sold at Hermann Ball & Paul Graupe, Berlin, 23–25 March 1931, lot 563, taf. 100.