Four porcelain plates and two dishes decorated in “famille rose” polychrome enamels with intertwined branches of peony, rose and chrysanthemum flowers, the exterior is white, undecorated, and each bears the Augustus The Strong Inventory wheel mark for his Japanese Palace in Dresden: N=176- I.

These incised numbers, colored in black, indicate that these porcelains were part of Augustus The Strong Collection,(Augustus II), Electeur de Saxe and King Of Poland ( 1670-1733).

He was an avid collector and amassed a vast collection of porcelain, wich was displayed in his “Japanese Palace”in Dresden.

A similar example to ours, in this Palace, is illustrated by Eva Ströber in “La Maladie de la Porcelaine” East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, Berlin, 2001, p 76, where she states that this dish was probably acquired by Auguste Le Fort in 1727;

 the 1779 inventory of the Collection indicates different diameters and slight variations in the decoration of this type.

The Queen Victoria in 1860 gave a similar dish to the Victoria And Albert Museum for its opening in 1862.

“Famille Rose” porcelain reached its peak during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor.

Bibliography :

 Eva Ströber in” La Maladie de porcelaine…/East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong”, Berlin, 2001