85. A Meissen plate from the Japanese Palace, circa 1729-31 Painted in Kakiemon style in enamels and gilding with a tiger with gilt stripes opposite flowering bamboo, 23.5cm diam., crossed swords mark in blue, incised Japanese Palace inventory number "N-72-/ W" Provenance The Royal collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden; Acquired by the grandfather of the present owner, thence by descent The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace in Dresden lists: "Eilf Dutzendt und (8.) 5. Stück Teller, mit roth und goldenen Löwen auch einem Bouquetm alt Indianische Mahlerey, 1 1/2. Zoll tief, 9 1/2. Zoll in Diam." [eleven dozen and (8) 5 plates, with a red and gold lion also a bouquet old Indian painting, 1 1/2 zoll deep, 9 1/2 zoll diam.] (quoted by Claus Boltz, "Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769", Keramos 153 (1996): 74). Augustus the Strong owned two Japanese plates in this pattern, which were used as sources for the Meissen examples. One of these is now in the collection of the Grassimuseum in Leipzig. See J. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, 2013, pp. 290-294, for a full discussion of the pattern and an example in the Ernst Schneider Collection.