Rare!! Antique 1700 Kangxi Chinese Porcelain Plate August The Strong Collection China

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Condition Report: TO be updated

Delicate and trademark Kangxi porcelain plate with mounted Dutch Silver Handle. Dark cobalt colors. To the back an engraved Johanneum mark.

Provenance: August the Strong collection Dresden. Saxon elector and Polish king Augustus the Strong was a major proponent of porcelain in the early 18th century. His love for the material drove him to imprison a talented young alchemist named Johann Friedrich Böttger in hopes of finding the formula for white porcelain, which at that time was a secret known only in China and Japan.

Johanneum were Inventory marks added to porcelain belonging to the collection of August the Strong (1694-1733) of Saxony. The first inventory was made in 1721.

The inventory numbers are painted in black, or cut through the glaze with a glass cuter’s wheel and blackened. In some cases the number have only been drawn in ink and have by natural causes washed away. In rare cases, in old and museum collections, they can be found inside lids and sometimes on unglazed porcelain bases.

A second inventory list of the porcelain collection at Dresden was made between 1770-1779. The second list comprises five volumes recording the original information of the 1721 inventory and the alterations depending on new acquisitions were added.

After the death of Augustus the Strong in 1733, the porcelain was packed away in the cellars of the unfinished “Japanische Palace”.

The term “Johanneum” was taken from the building in Dresden to which the royal collection was moved in 1875-76.

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