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A Meissen sugar bowl and cover from the 'Gelber Löwe' service for the Royal Court Pantry, Warsaw, circa 1738 Of quatrelobe shape, painted in Kakiemon style with a tiger curling around bamboo facing flowering prunus branches issuing from a tree-stump, surrounded by scattered flower sprigs, the cover with a gilt pierced crown finial, 13cm long, crossed swords mark in underglaze-blue, impressed Dreher's mark for Andreas Schiefer inside footrim (2) Fußnoten Provenance: Royal Court Pantry (Hofkonditorei), Warsaw, delivered in September or November 1738; With E & H. Manners, London Literature: Julia Weber, Meißener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II (2013), p. 271, ill. 44 For a comprehensive discussion of the history of the 'Gelber Löwe' service in the 18th century, see Julia Weber, vol. II (2013), pp. 265-274. Work began by January 1734 at the latest on the service for Augustus III, which was at first intended for the Japanese Palace in Dresden. In July 1738 various pieces from the service were moved from the Japanese Palace to the 'Hofkonditorei' (court pantry) for use as a court service. On 16 September and 28 November of the same year further pieces were sent from Meissen, including '3 oval paßigt Zuckerdosen' [3 oval lobed sugar bowls]. Weber argues that the present lot must have been one of these three, supported by Eberlein's work records from August 1738:'2. Eine Neue gaternirte Zucker Dose nebst Kröngen zum Knopffe' [A new sugar bowl with a crown as a finial] (quoted in Julia Weber, vol. II (2013), p.270).