Offering bowl with "Yellow Lion" decoration from the Royal Court Kitchen Oval, moulded shape. Large kakiemon decoration in the centre with a yellow lion winding around a blue bamboo stick. A blossoming prunus tree standing nearby and scattered flower arrangements. Sea buckthorn-coloured rim. Inscribed "Hof=Küche." in the ground. Unmarked to rim; traces of age and use. Centreboard mark. 33.5 cm x 23.5 cm. Cf. Pietsch, Triumph der blauen Schwerter, p. 277 and Eikelmann/Weber, Meissen Porzellane, vol. II, p. 265. An oval Kakiemon style porcelain bowl with "Yellow lion" pattern. Signs of age and use. Insignificantly chipped at the rim. Inscribed "Hof=Küche.". Crossed swords mark. Meissen. Marcolini. Circa 1774 - 1815.