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Lot Essay
For a thorough discussion of black-glazed pieces in the Japanese Palace, see Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ''Eine gantz Neue Arth von Porcellain' Die Produkte der Meißener Manufaktur im Stil von Lack', in Schwarz Porcelain, Museum für Lackkunst and Schloß Favorite bei Rastatt December 2003 - June 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2003, pp. 141-169, where she illustrates a kendi with related decoration on p. 169, fig. 82.
The 1721 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists almost 100 black-glazed pieces, of which 72 were made at Meissen. Chinese black-glazed pieces were given numbers 1 to 5, and the Meissen black-glazed pieces were given numbers 6 to 42. The second inventory of the palace which was taken in 1770 lists an additional thirty-two pieces with inventory numbers running up to number 74. These additional pieces had been registered in the inventory of the factory's warehouses in Leipzig and Dresden in 1719, and they were taken 'into the King's possession in 1733 as part of the Böttger Creditwesen.1
It is not clear how the black-glazed pieces were originally displayed in the palace, nor which rooms housed them. The 1721 Inventarium records that four rooms were dedicated to Meissen porcelain (two rooms for red stoneware pieces and two rooms for white porcelain pieces), but it does not specify if these rooms also displayed the black-glazed pieces, or if they were housed in a different room. There is only one entry which refers to black-glazed porcelain pieces; a garniture of lacquer vases on carved and gilded brackets,2 but it is not clear if the garniture was Oriental or Meissen. As Cassidy-Geiger points out, 'many of the surviving pieces of different shapes have en suite decoration that suggests they too were used together to form larger groupings or formal arrangements'.3
For a discussion of Martin Schnell, his workshop in Dresden and the attribution of pieces to him or his workshop, see Monika Kopplin, in Schwartz Porcelain, Museum für Lackkunst and Schloß Favorite bei Rastatt December 2003 - June 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2003, pp. 171-193.
A very similarly decorated flask of the same form from the Nyffeler Collection was sold in these Rooms on 9 June 1986, lot 196. An unglazed stoneware example of this form was sold in these Rooms on 21 November 2005, lot 203 and another similar example, formerly in the Ole Olsen Collection, Denmark, and bearing the Japanese Palace inventory number 232 R, was offered in these Rooms on 18 May 1995, lot 155.
1. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, English Translation Volume, Munich 2004, p. 75.
2. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, p. 76, '(S. 21) N.3...Auff 7. Stück geschnizten und vergoldeten Consolen sind Schwarz lacquirte Auffsätze und Kästgen auffgesetzt' ('Section 21. Room No. 3...Black lacquered garnitures (of vases) and little boxes are placed on 7 carved and gilded brackets').
3. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, p. 75.
The 1721 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists almost 100 black-glazed pieces, of which 72 were made at Meissen. Chinese black-glazed pieces were given numbers 1 to 5, and the Meissen black-glazed pieces were given numbers 6 to 42. The second inventory of the palace which was taken in 1770 lists an additional thirty-two pieces with inventory numbers running up to number 74. These additional pieces had been registered in the inventory of the factory's warehouses in Leipzig and Dresden in 1719, and they were taken 'into the King's possession in 1733 as part of the Böttger Creditwesen.
It is not clear how the black-glazed pieces were originally displayed in the palace, nor which rooms housed them. The 1721 Inventarium records that four rooms were dedicated to Meissen porcelain (two rooms for red stoneware pieces and two rooms for white porcelain pieces), but it does not specify if these rooms also displayed the black-glazed pieces, or if they were housed in a different room. There is only one entry which refers to black-glazed porcelain pieces; a garniture of lacquer vases on carved and gilded brackets,
For a discussion of Martin Schnell, his workshop in Dresden and the attribution of pieces to him or his workshop, see Monika Kopplin, in Schwartz Porcelain, Museum für Lackkunst and Schloß Favorite bei Rastatt December 2003 - June 2004 Exhibition Catalogue, Munich, 2003, pp. 171-193.
A very similarly decorated flask of the same form from the Nyffeler Collection was sold in these Rooms on 9 June 1986, lot 196. An unglazed stoneware example of this form was sold in these Rooms on 21 November 2005, lot 203 and another similar example, formerly in the Ole Olsen Collection, Denmark, and bearing the Japanese Palace inventory number 232 R, was offered in these Rooms on 18 May 1995, lot 155.
1. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, English Translation Volume, Munich 2004, p. 75.
2. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, p. 76, '(S. 21) N.3...Auff 7. Stück geschnizten und vergoldeten Consolen sind Schwarz lacquirte Auffsätze und Kästgen auffgesetzt' ('Section 21. Room No. 3...Black lacquered garnitures (of vases) and little boxes are placed on 7 carved and gilded brackets').
3. Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, ibid, p. 75.