A Meissen saucer dish, circa 1730, with later 18th century armorialOf deep lobed form, painted with three flower sprigs in Kakiemon style, the centre later decorated (after 1770) with the crowned arms of Saxony, 14.7cm across, crossed swords mark in blue enamel, incised Japanese Palace inventory number N=336./ W注脚Provenance:Royal Collections of Saxony, Japanese Palace, DresdenPart of the large order of porcelain mostly copying Japanese originals that was placed by the Paris merchant, Rudolph Lemaire, and which was subsequently seized and incorporated into Augustus the Strong's collections in the Japanese Palace. The 1770 inventory lists 85 such saucers (for chocolate beakers) without mention of the arms. A similar dish, along with another with the arms of Poland, is in the Arnhold Collection, New York (M. Cassidy-Geiger, The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain 1710-50 (2008), nos. 103a and b).