36. Très rare tasse à thé octogonale et sa soucoupe en porcelaine de Meissen provenant du « Japanisches Palais », circa 1730 A rare Meissen octagonal teabowl and saucer from the Japanese Palace, circa 1730 Painted in Kakiemon style with scattered flower-heads and leaves around a central circular panel of iron-red chrysanthemums reserved on a purple foliate ground, the teabowl: 4.4cm high; the saucer: 12.9cm diam., incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=352/ W (2) Provenance: The Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, Dresden The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists: 'Siebenzehen Stück detto [Caffeé-Tassen], etwas kleiner, nebst Unterschaalen, 1¼. Zoll tief, 5. Zoll in Diam: No. 352' [seventeen ditto (coffee cups), somewhat smaller, along with saucers...] (quoted by C. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 58). A similar teabowl and saucer, both marked with caduceus mark, from the Delphinium Collection were sold by Bonhams London, 20 March 2013, lot 20. Another is in the Margaret M. and Arthur J. Mourot Collection, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (1983), cat. no. 59.