A Meissen porcelain dish with "Shiba Onko" decor and palace inventory number
A Meissen porcelain dish with "Shiba Onko" decor and palace inventory number
Octagonal dish painted in the centre with two figures and a further figure in a large vessel, with bamboo on the right and three birds on the left. The border with a Chinoiserie flower and leaf design. Overglaze blue crossed swords mark, engraved and blackened inventory no. "N=38.w". A rim chip of 1 mm at 8 o'clock. H 3.8, diameter 21.4 cm.
1729 - 31.
This dish illustrates a story from the childhood of the Chinese historian Sima Guang (1019 - 1086), who is known as Shiba Onko in Japanese, which has been handed down as the "water tank story". In the tale, he saves a playmate who had fallen into a carp tank from drowning by breaking the vessel with a stone.
This decor design was produced in Arita as of 1670 and was copied exactly in Meissen after 1729. Julia Weber mentions 50 bowls of different sizes, which are numbered 33 to 39, in the inventory of the Japanese Palace. The same object in the Dresden collection was confiscated from Count Hoym's house after the Lemaire-Hoym affair was discovered and given the overglaze mark. This may also be the case with the bowl presented here, as it also became royal property. In the inventory of the Japanese Palace from 1770, the pieces are described as "8-cornered, with moulded brown edges, painted pagodas on the inside, 1 3/4 inches deep, 11 3/4 inches in diameter:" (Bolz, p. 72).
Provenance
A. Chevet Collection.
Andreina Torré, Zurich.
German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.
Literature
Cf. Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten „Kakiemonstil“ als Vorbild für die Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur, Munich 1973, cat. no. 124.
Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 174, for an identical dish with inv. no. "N=36 w" and overglaze mark.
Cf. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in: Keramos 153/1996, p. 72.
For the Japanese prototype see The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, acc. no. 1995.268.96.
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A Meissen porcelain dish with "Shiba Onko" decor and palace inventory number
Octagonal dish painted in the centre with two figures and a further figure in a large vessel, with bamboo on the right and three birds on the left. The border with a Chinoiserie flower and leaf design. Overglaze blue crossed swords mark, engraved and blackened inventory no. "N=38.w". A rim chip of 1 mm at 8 o'clock. H 3.8, diameter 21.4 cm.
1729 - 31.
This dish illustrates a story from the childhood of the Chinese historian Sima Guang (1019 - 1086), who is known as Shiba Onko in Japanese, which has been handed down as the "water tank story". In the tale, he saves a playmate who had fallen into a carp tank from drowning by breaking the vessel with a stone.
This decor design was produced in Arita as of 1670 and was copied exactly in Meissen after 1729. Julia Weber mentions 50 bowls of different sizes, which are numbered 33 to 39, in the inventory of the Japanese Palace. The same object in the Dresden collection was confiscated from Count Hoym's house after the Lemaire-Hoym affair was discovered and given the overglaze mark. This may also be the case with the bowl presented here, as it also became royal property. In the inventory of the Japanese Palace from 1770, the pieces are described as "8-cornered, with moulded brown edges, painted pagodas on the inside, 1 3/4 inches deep, 11 3/4 inches in diameter:" (Bolz, p. 72).
Provenance
A. Chevet Collection.
Andreina Torré, Zurich.
German private collection, acquired from Röbbig, Munich.
Literature
Cf. Shono, Japanisches Aritaporzellan im sogenannten „Kakiemonstil“ als Vorbild für die Meißener Porzellanmanufaktur, Munich 1973, cat. no. 124.
Cf. Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, cat. no. 174, for an identical dish with inv. no. "N=36 w" and overglaze mark.
Cf. Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in: Keramos 153/1996, p. 72.
For the Japanese prototype see The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, acc. no. 1995.268.96.
