Sold Ceramics - Sold Batavia Brown (Capucin wares) 1700-1800 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares

Object 2011289

Teapot

China

1740-1750

Height with cover 126 mm (4.96 inch), height without cover 105 mm (4.13 inch), diameter handle to spout 197 mm (7.76 inch), diameter of rim 44 mm (1.73 inch), diameter of footring 64 mm (2.52 inch)

Teapot of globular shape on footring, straight spout with a curved C-shaped handle. The cover is missing and replaced with an inlaying unmarked engraved silver cover with round knob. Batavia brown covered with underglaze dark brown. Polychrome decorated in various, famille rose, enamels, iron-red and gold. The body reserved with two large, leaf-shaped, panels filled with various flowering plants. Underneath the spout, a small leaf-shaped panel filled with a single flowering stem.

Porcelain decorated in this type of underglaze dark brown has historically been called "Batavia brown" or "capucijnergoed" in the Netherlands, "capucin" or "feuilles mortes" in French, or simply "brown glazed" in England and the United States. Occasionally, a gold decoration has been painted on the brown glaze. These "Batavia brown" pieces were very popular in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, pp.136-137 & p.211)

Condition: A glaze rough spot to the handle.

References.:

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 143 & 251

Jörg 2002/2, cat. 82

Price: Sold.