A23

Round Shiba Onko plate with palace mark ‘N=75 -W’

Meissen 1730/31; Ø 22,4 cm; onglaze swords mark in enamel blue; palace number (d) "N=75-W" (Boltz, Keramos 153/1996 p. 74); impressed mark "X" for Johan Daniel Rehschuh (Rückert, Keramos 151 / 1996 p. 80)

Provenance: Royal Collection in the Japanese Palace, Dresden (Boltz loc. cit.); Margarete and Dr. Franz Oppenheimer (inv. no. 213 in red); Dr. Fritz Mannheimer, bankier Amsterdam; Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, previously ibid. permanent loan from the Dutch (Den Blaauwen 2000 no. 162 p. 240); heirs of Margarete and Franz Oppenheimer, who sold the collection at auction at Sotheby's New York (14.09.2021 no. 28)

The Shiba Onko plates with the palace number ‘N=75-W’ are rare. In the inventory of the Japanese Palace of 1770, only 11 examples are listed (Boltz op. cit.): "Eilf Stück Teller mit braunen Rande, inwendig Pagoden und Blumen gemahlt 9 [sic] 1/2 Zoll tief, 9 3/4 Zoll in Diam. No. 75".

According to Den Blaauwen (cat. Rijksmuseum 2000 no. 162 p. 240) only 5 pieces are still in the porcelain collection in the Zwinger and 1 plate in the Museum für Kunsthandwerk, Dresden.

Literatur

Boltz, Claus: „Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar, 1769.“, In Keramos 153 / 1996

Den Blaauwen, Abraham L.: Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum., Amsterdam 2000

Rückert, Rainer: „Alchimistische Symbolzeichen als Meissener Masse-, Former-, Bossierer- und Drehermarken im vierten Jahrzehnt des 18. Jahrhunderts.“, In Keramos 151 / 1996

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