A Meissen porcelain sake flask with palace inventory number
Model of square section decorated on all four faces with various Japonesque chrysanthemum motifs, a bundle of rice straw, an insect, and a bird in flight in gilt quatrefoil reserves. Smoothed base with dreher's mark of Gottfried Seydel, engraved with the blackened inventory no. "N=29I-w". The neck restored and shortened, minor wear to the gilding. H 20.3 cm.
Around 1732 - 34.
In appendix 5 of the delivery specifications for this order of porcelain, which the Meissen manufactory delivered to his "Royal Majesty in Pohlen" for the Japanese Palace in Dresden's Neustadt in 1734, number 291 lists the item "96 [piece] set of bottles", of which one is offered here. Johann Gregorius Hoeroldt first succeeded in producing the seafoam or celadon green ground colour in 1726. The colour can be traced back to Chinese porcelain, which the Jesuit François Xavier d'Entrecolles, stationed in Jingdezhen in China, described in a 1717 publication as "ver de mer". After studying his descriptions, coloured glazes began to be developed in Meissen.
Literature
For the specifications of this order see Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in: Keramos 153/1996, p. 90.
Cf. cat. Glanz des Barock. Die Sammlung Ludwig in Bamberg, Bamberg 1995, no. 130.
Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 418