A Meissen turquoise-ground decagonal bowl, circa 1735The exterior painted with two panels depicting a bird perched on indianische Blumen, two with a butterfly over similar flowers (including one with a grasshopper) and one with a pavlion in a garden, gilt-edged and alternating with turquoise-ground panels, the inside painted with a sprig of indianische Blumen and scattered blooms below a border of iron-red scrolling foliage around the rim, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, incised Dreher's mark x inside footrim for Johann Christophe Pietzsch, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=480-/ W (some rubbing to gilding)注脚Provenance:Collection of Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild by 1931 (offered at Ball & Graupe, Berlin, 25 March 1931, lot 463);Sold from his Estate by Christie's Geneva, 9 May 1988, lot 120;With H. Reichert, Munich;Purchased from the above in November 1996The 1770 inventory of the Japanese Palace lists 'Sechzehen Stück 8.eckichte detto [grün glassurte Spühl Näpfe] mit breiten überschlagenen Rande, 4 1/2. Zoll hoch, 10. Zoll in Diam: No. 480' (sixteen octagonal ditto [green glazed rinsing bowls] with wide everted rims]; quoted by Claus Boltz, Japanisches Palais-Inventar 1770 und Turmzimmer-Inventar 1769, in Keramos 153 (1996), p. 65. The Japanese Palace inventory lists four decagonal bowls under no. 479, so the following number was probably engraved in error on the present lot. This and numerous other green-glazed bowls of different sizes were delivered to the Japanese Palace on 25 June 1737; the delivery specification is published by Boltz, pp. 96-97.This bowl belonged to the celebrated collector, Baron Erich von Goldschmidt-Rothschild (1899-1987), and was offered in the sale of his collection in Berlin in 1931. At the outbreak of Second World War, von Goldschmidt-Rothschild was living in Bordeaux, from where he managed to flee to the Dominican Republic and then to the United States. In the 1950s, he lived on 5th Avenue in New York (this bowl is visible in a photograph of his appartment published in M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), p. 96, fig. 17), and later moved back to Europe and settled in Rome.