Recent Acquisitions

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Latest update: Recent Acquisitions; Febuary 15, 2025.

2012362

Chine de commande - Armorial / Pseudo-Armorial wares 1700-1800 - Armorial - Dutch

Object 2012632

Part of a coffee and tea service of nineteen pieces; a coffee pot, a stand, a slop bowl, four tea bowls, four coffee cups, two tea bowl saucers and six coffee cup saucers.

China

c.1765-1770

Height of coffee pot with cover 255 mm (10.04 inch), height without cover 190 mm (7.48 inch), diameter rim 75 mm (2.95 inch), diameter footring 122 mm (4.80 inch), diameter handle to spout 230 mm (9.06 inch), weight including cover 1,048 grams (36.97 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 129 grams (4.55 ounce (oz.))

Height of coffee pot stand 27 mm (1.06 inch), dimensions rim 230 mm (9.06 inch) x 180 mm (7.09 inch), weight 340 grams (11.99 ounce (oz.))

Height of slop bowl 77 mm (3.03 inch), diameter of rim 166 mm (6.54 inch), diameter of footring 79 mm (3.11 inch), weight 373 grams (13.16 ounce (oz.))

Tea bowls:

1. Height 44 mm (1.73 inch), diameter of rim 78 mm (3.07 inch), diameter of footring 37 mm (1.46 inch), weight 50 grams (1.76 ounce (oz.))

2. Height 44 mm (1.73 inch), diameter of rim 78 mm (3.07 inch), diameter of footring 36 mm (1.42 inch), weight 62 grams (2.19 ounce (oz.))

3. Height 42 mm (1.65 inch), diameter of rim 76 mm (2.99 inch), diameter of footring 36 mm (1.42 inch), weight 56 grams (1.98 ounce (oz.))

4. Height 42 mm (1.65 inch), diameter of rim 76 mm (2.99 inch), diameter of footring 36 mm (1.42 inch), weight 56 grams (1.98 ounce (oz.))

Tea bowl saucers:

1.Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 122 mm (4.80 inch), diameter of footring 66 mm (2.60 inch), weight 106 grams (3.74 ounce (oz.))

2.Height 31 mm (1.22 inch), diameter of rim 124 mm (4.88 inch), diameter of footring 66 mm (2.60 inch), weight 112 grams (3.95 ounce (oz.))

Coffee cup saucers:

1.Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 139 mm (5.47 inch), diameter of footring 74 mm (2.91 inch), weight 118 grams (4.16 ounce (oz.))

2.Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 140 mm (5.51 inch), diameter of footring 75 mm (2.95 inch), weight 115 grams (4.06 ounce (oz.))

3.Height 31 mm (1.22 inch), diameter of rim 137 mm (5.39 inch), diameter of footring 72 mm (2.83 inch), weight 117 grams (4.13 ounce (oz.))

4.Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 136 mm (5.35 inch), diameter of footring 80 mm (3.15 inch), weight 128 grams (4.52 ounce (oz.))

5.Height 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of rim 136 mm (5.35 inch), diameter of footring 75 mm (2.95 inch), weight 115 grams (4.06 ounce (oz.))

6.Height 31 mm (1.22 inch), diameter of rim 140 mm (5.51 inch), diameter of footring 75 mm (2.95 inch), weight 117 grams (4.13 ounce (oz.))

Coffe cups:

1.Height 65 mm (2.56 inch), diameter of rim 66 mm (2.60 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch), weight 93 grams (3.28 ounce (oz.))

2.Height 66 mm (2.60 inch), diameter of rim 65 mm (2.56 inch), diameter of footring 34 mm (1.34 inch), weight 100 grams (3.53 ounce (oz.))

3.Height 65 mm (2.56 inch), diameter of rim 66 mm (2.60 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch), weight 107 grams (3.77 ounce (oz.))

4.Height 67 mm (2.64 inch), diameter of rim 65 mm (2.65 inch), diameter of footring 35 mm (1.38 inch), weight 89 grams (3.14 ounce (oz.))

Part of a coffee and tea service of nineteen pieces. All objects decorated in various overglaze enamels, iron-red, black and gold with the arms of Romswinckel in the center, on a red background three gold concentric circles; the crest a gold coronet surmounted by three similar gold circles with three pink plumes above. Round the rims garlands with broad bands of pink and green flowering leaves.

The coat of arms show: on a red background three gold concentric circles; the crest a gold coronet surmounted by three similar gold circles with three pink plumes above.

These are the arms of Romswinckel from the Cleves district in Germany, with younger branches in Amsterdam, Leiden and the East Indies. They were borne this way as early as 1588 by Mathias Romswinckel as richter or judge of Goch, Germany.

About 1778-1782 the Romswinckel family also had an armorial service made of Loosdrecht porcelain of which a plate with a scalloped rim is known. The armorials of the two Chinese services I & II are very similar, with only small differences in the mantling. However, the arms on the Loosdrecht plate are rather different: the shield having a coronet above and being surrounded by garlands and branches tied by a ribbon beneath.

Romswinckel I Chinese tea service c.1765-1770, the only known pieces of this tea service.

(Image reproduced from: Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, (J. Kroes, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007), p.343, cat.no. 262. (copyright in data and images is held by the publisher or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved))

The Reverend Ds. Johannes Romswinckel (1614-1661) moved from Müllheim, Germany to Holland becomming the founder of the Dutch Romswinckel branch. Members of this family in both leiden and Amsterdam rose to senior positions. It is most likely that someone within the Leiden branch commissioned this service. Nicolaas Romswinckel (Archangel 1707: Leiden 1755), solicitor and from 1742 councillor of Leiden, married in 1732 Catharina Marcus (1713-1775). They had 14 children of whom at least three sons could have ordered this porcelain in the late 1760s: Nicolaas Abraham (1733), Matthijs (1741) and Joost (1745). Nicolaas himself was a solicitor in Leiden and joined the city council in 1742, he was also alderman for a couple of years from 1749.

His eldest son Nicolaas Abraham Romswinckel (born Leiden, 10 January 1733; Died Leiden 10 October 1823) studied law at Leiden University graduating in 1755. He was a solicitor in Leiden and Haarlem and from 1773 sheriff and secretary of Nieuwerveen and Zevenhoven, two villages near Leiden. He married twice, first on 11 january 1761 to Johanna Dorothea Sellius (1736-1780) and in 1782 to Nicasia Johanna Kip (died 1797). One of his sons was Joost Carel Romswinckel (Haarlem 1772; Batavia 1846) who had a remaarkable career in the East Indies, startinmg about 1795 as assitent and in 1808 being appointed extraordinary councillor of the Indies. He married in 1801 a girl from a prominent family in the Dutch East Indies, Catharina Wilhelmina van Stockum (1761-1806), who was the daughter of the councillor of the Indies Hendrik van Stockum, and Catharina Elisabeth Romswinckel. They ordered an armorial service in the late 18th century. Catharina Elisabeth (1744-1785) was the daughter of Matthijs Romswinckel( 1702-1750), Nicolaas Senior's brother and thus these brothers were cousins. Matthijs had been in Batavia since 1741, first as junior merchant and from 1745 as vendumeester or auctioneer.

The second son, Matthijs Romswinckel (born Leiden, 28 february 1741; died Amsterdam, 7 March 1796) settled in Amsterdam after 1761, where he became bookkeeper of the stadsimpost, a local tax (1761-1767) trustee of the St. Pietergasthuis (1768) and director of the VOC Chamber Amsterdam 1786. He never married.

Although still a rather young when this porcelain was made, the third son could also have ordered this service and the Lossdrecht set later. This was Joost Romswinckel (born Leiden, 20 december 1745; died The Hague, 28 May 1824) who studied law at Utrecht Universityand started his career in Leiden as a soliciter in 1770. He had been a captain of the citizn guard there from 1767 (until 1773). In 1771 he entered the city council as vroedschap or councillor until 1787 and as alderman (1781-1782, 1787). He was also a delegate of the States General from 1784until 1786 and commissioner of the Bank van Lening or pawnbroker's shop (1775-1781). he married twice, first in 1781 Gerardina Barbara Beeldemaker (1755-1783), who was the widow of Jan van der Poorten, after het death in 1887 Henriette Geertuij Vester (1760-1829). He had ten children, two from his first en eight by his second wife. By 1783 Joost was a wealthy man. After the death of his first wife that year an inventory was made with details about his fortune which comprised debentures and shares woth more than HFL 49,273, together with jewellery, furniture and so on, in all totalling more than HFL 88,843. One quarter, over HFL 22,200, was left over to Joost. There was also a large library part of which, after 1807, was purchased by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek or Royal Library in The Hague for HFL 50,000.

This tea bowl and saucer are from the second Chinese service with the Romswinckel arms dating to the same period as the first service (1765-1770) of which two other saucers part of a tea and coffee service of which four other pieces are known: a teapot, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl and a lobbed dish. The armorial design is almost identical to that of the first Romswinckel service, however, the mantling is different showing in this case garlands and some scrollwork in pink, green and gold enamels.

The service must have been made in teh second half of the 1760s about the same time as the first Romswinckel service. In the entry for that service it is noted that several people coul have commissioned this service, in particular in the Leiden branch the three brothers Nicolaas Abraham (1733-1823), Matthijs (1741-1796) or Joost Romswinckel (1745-1824)

For the covered sugar bowl with a small saucer from thre Romswinckel I tea service (1765-1770),

please see:

• Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. The Ming and Qing Dynasties, (C.J.A. Jörg in collaboration with J. van Campen, London, 1997), p.312 cat. 370.
• Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, (J. Kroes, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007), pp.343-344, cat.no. 262. 

For a saucer from thre Romswinckel II tea and coffee service (1765-1770), please see:

• Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, (J. Kroes, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007), p.373, cat.no. 291. 

About 1778-1782 the Romswinckel family also had an armorial service made of Loosdrecht porcelain of which a plate with a scalloped rim is known. 

The Romswinckel family armorial service plate with the scalloped rim, made of Loosdrecht porcelain.

(Image reproduced from: Museum De Lakenhal Leiden (copyright in data and images is held by the publisher or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved))

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Reference:

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 370

Kroes 2007, cat.no. 262 & cat.no. 291

Museum De Lakenhal Leiden

Price: Sold.

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2012630

Japanese Kakiemon / Japanese Kakiemon-style wares - Japanese Kakiemon

Object 2012630

Bowl

Japan (Kiln: probably Nangawara)

c.1700

Height 84 mm (3.31 inch), diameter of rim 168 mm (6.61 inch), diameter of footring 73 mm (2.87 inch), weight 430 grams (15.17 ounce (oz.))

Bowl on footring, spreading sides, with everted scalloped rim. On the base a single spur-mark. Decorated in underglaze blue with a continuous scene of a fenced garden with Chinese figures, prunus trees and rocks. Two figures are seated at a table, while a third is walking toward them holding a basket. On the other side two standing figures, one holding a fan. Over the scene curling clouds. In the centre a medallion with a European landscape, showing a farmer leading a cow, two European figures, a pole, a building on hills, a sail and houses. Around the inside rim a karakusa 唐草 (foliate) scrolls border. A double blue line around the foot. Brown edge. Marked on the base with a fuku 福 (good fortune) mark in a circle. (SKD Online collection, PO. 1929.)

The design on this bowl has traditionally been called 'Deshima' or 'Scheveningen'. This design was highly popular in The Netherlands, and possibly also in Japan as a kind of Western exoticism. It first appeared, in underglaze blue, on Japanese dishes of the late 17^th century.

It certainly does not depict the Dutch factory in Deshima (Nagasaki), a fan-shaped, man-made island in Japan to which Westerners were restricted between 1641 and 1862. Scheveningen, a fishermen´s village on the Dutch coast near The Hague seems a more appropriate name. In fact 47 'Scheveningen' plates were already mentioned in the 1778 sale catalogue of the porcelain shop of Martha Raap in Amsterdam, clearly indicating this type. Much research was done to find the print that was used as a model, but non with this view have yet come to light. it is therefore possible that another source was used, maybe a plate or dish in the so-called Frijtom style. Frederick van Frijtom (c.1632-1702) was a Delft faience painter who specialised in plates, dishes, and plaques with landscapes in blue. His work is characterised by wide blank rims on plates and dishes, detailed painting of trees and landscapes and a specific way of drawing clouds. (Jörg 2003/1) The existence of a Scheveningen Japanese plate in precisely this style makes it plausible that at some point a Delft example by Frijtom was used. (Terwee 1989)

Several variations of the ´Scheveningen decoration´ design are known, in both Japanese and – later - Chinese porcelain. These were mostly dishes, but elements of the design were also used on bowls and cups. Some copies are barely recognisable.

A larger (228 mm (8.69 inch)), identically shaped and decorated bowl is in the collection of Augustus the Strong in Dresden and registered under the number P.O. (Porzellan Ostasien) 1929. In the Palace Invertory 1721 four identical bowls are mentioned under the Inventory entry number N 376. In the Inventory of 1779 three bowl are mentioned.

Source: Palace Inventory 1721 Entry: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Inventory no. 324. Inventorisation of the Palais in Alt-Dresden. In the year 1721. [Addenda], Blue-and-white Indian, Ch. I. Dresden 1721I, pag. 805:. (SKD Online collection, PO. 1929)

German:

English:

"376. 4 fine broad-ribbed slop bowls with offset rims dressed in brown, 4 in. deep, 9¼ in. in diam."

(SKD Online collection, PO. 1929) this bowl is not included in this sale/offer.

The 'Scheveningen' motif has been altered, but the compositional elements are still easily recognisable. Rocks and figures create a strong diagonal that is absent in earlier versions. An enamelled Meissen bowl of c.1730 in the British Museum closely copies this shape and design, including the diagonal composition.

For this Meissen bowl, please see:

• Porcelain for Palaces. The Fashion for Japan in Europe 1650-1750, (J. Ayers, O. Impey & J.V.G. Mallet, Oriental Ceramic Society & The British Museum, London 1990), p.264, cat. 301.

An interesting example in the collection of the Groninger Museum: a blank Chinese porcelain dish overdecorated in Delft (the Netherlands) c.1700-1730. The circle was thus made complete, the design having travelled from Delft to Japan and then back to Delft. (Jörg 2003/1, cat. 307a)

For this Delft variant, please see:

• Fine & Curious: Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections, (C.J.A. Jörg, Hotei Publishing, Amsterdam 2003), p.241, cat. 307a. 

In the cargo of the Ca Mau shipwreck, c.1725 a total of 80 dishes decorated with the Chine de commande 'Scheveningen decoration' were found. As we know the original designs were traditionally made in Japan for the Dutch. These dishes were so popular that Chinese potters copied them in order to compete with the Japanese. Such copies were already known, but the occurrence in the Ca Mau made it likely that these dishes, and therefore most of the porcelain cargo, were destined for Batavia because only the Dutch would appreciate such specific Chine de commande pieces. (Amsterdam 2007, p.17, lot 223-233 & p.179)

The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Arita, dates this specific mark to 1670-80, which seems rather early. Fitski states that the character of this mark has not been identified. It occurs on Nangawara pieces that date from 1670 to 1700. For this mark please see:

• The Shibata Collection Part V, (The Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Kyushu, 1997), p.253, cat. 16.
• Kakiemon Porcelain. A Handbook. (M. Fitski, Leiden University Press, Leiden & Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 2011), p.165. 

Condition: A tiny fleabite to the rim.

References:

Terwee 1989

Ayers, Impey & Mallet 1990, cat. 33

Kyushu 1991, cat. 503

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat.307a & cat. 312

Kyushu 1997, 9.253, cat. 16 

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 312

Kyushu 2003, cat. 2167

Amsterdam 2007, p.17, lot 223-233 & p.179

Fitski 2011, p.165

SKD Online collection, PO. 1929

Price: Sold.

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2012631

Red & Gold / Rouge-de-Fer 1690-1730 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares

Object 2012631

Teapot

China

1700-1720

Height with cover 149 mm (5.87 inch), height without cover 117 mm (4.61 inch), diameter handle to spout 175 mm (6.88 inch), diameter of mouthrim 52 mm (2.05 inch), diameter of footring 50 mm (1.97 inch), weight including cover 379 grams (13.37 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 34 grams (1.20 ounce (oz.))

Egg-shaped teapot on a footring. Straight spout, curved C-shaped handle, domed pierced cover with a pointed knob. Decorated in 'Red & Gold' / 'Rouge-de-fer' with iron-red and gold on the glaze between two diaper-pattern borders in underglaze blue, with on either side of the body a flowering chrysanthemum and prunus, their flower buds in low relief. On the handle and spout florets between scrolls. The cover is decorated en suite.

Only grown in China and Japan during the 17th Century, tea became known in the Netherlands early because the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipped small quantities home. Its use as a beverage was established slowly, and was probably started by retired VOC employees who had become accustomed to drinking tea in the East. At a tea party, the expensive beverage was served in small teapots, one for each guest, filled with the leaves of the type he or she preferred. The tea was poured into small cups, while the teapot was refilled with hot water from a metal or sometimes ceramic kettle. The small quantity of famille verte teapots still abound reflects the demand in Europe at the time. Elaborately decorated, they must have been regarded as luxury wares for the upper classes. (Jörg 2011/2, p.131)

For an earlier sold, identically, shaped, sized and decorated teapot, please see:

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Red & Gold / Rouge-de-Fer 1690-1730 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares - Page 1 - Object 2012604.

Condition: Some firing flaws on the handle and knob and two fleabites to tip of the knob,

Reference:

Jörg 2011/2, p.131

Price: Sold.

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2011740

Japanese Imari 1690-1800 - 'Gold' Imari

Object 2011741

Saucer

Japan

1700-1730

Height of saucer 16 mm (0.63 inch), diameter of rim 77 mm (3.03 inch), diameter of footring 44 mm or (1.73 inch), weight 21 grams (0.74 ounce (oz.))

Saucer on footrings, slightly everted rim. 'Gold' Imari, decorated in gold, iron-red and a light-pinkish gold wash with a central flower spray round the rim a silkworm and stripes pattern border. The reverse is undecorated.

Miniature porcelain was used to decorate a room or mantelshelf as part of a porcelain ensemble or was intended to be put into a porcelain cabinet. Japanese miniature red and gold Imari pieces can also be found as part of doll’s houses, which showed representations of actual rooms. Pardue states that seventeenth-century Dutch and eighteenth-century British parents wanted their children to prosper and be refined members of polite society. The tea wares and other miniature ceramics, may have been used by or casual play by the young or curiosities for adult amusement, but when viewed through the lens of material culture, they also served as a means through which parents taught their children to succeed in an adult world and carry themselves with proper refinement in polite society. Finally, it has also been suggested that these small sized teacups and saucers were used for the tasting and testing of various sorts of precious tea at a shop. (Jörg 2003/1, p.205 cat. 264), (Pardue 2008, XX)

Condition: Perfect.

References

Jörg 2003/1, cat. 264

Pardue 2008, XX

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2012628

Chine de commande - Armorial / Pseudo-Armorial wares 1700-1800 - Armorial - Dutch

Object 2012628

Saucer

China

1750-1760

Height including cover 129 mm (5.07 inch), height excluding cover 98 mm (3.85 inch), diameter 74 mm (2.91 inch), diameter mouthrim 35 mm (1.38 inch), diameter of footring 40 mm (1.57 inch), weight with cover 171 grams (6.03 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 35 grams (1.23 ounce (oz.))

Tea caddy of ovoid form on footring, domed cover (not matching) with a pointed knob. Applied scroll work at the spreading foot. Decorated on two sides in encre de Chine (grisaille), iron-red, gold and blue enamel with a yet unknown coat of arms: the arms are quarterly, 1. and 4. a pegasus, 2. and 3. two bars. The crest a pegasus on top of coronet. The mantling comprise symmetrical scrollwork and ropes of pearls in European style. On the shoulder strapwork in Du Paquier style. 

A tea service of which15 pieces were sold at Sotheby's Amsterdam in 1994 comprising a teapot, milk jug, sugar bowl with cover, a teapot stand, a saucer dish, five tea bowls and five saucers. In addition to the illustrated saucer, one other turned up in a private collection and two milk jugs of h. 13.3 cm were sold at Christie's London in 1999. The arms have been incorrectly attributed to the Stapert family from Friesland. They are probably the arms of a Frisian or East Frisian family: in the Amsterdam 1994 sale two other lots in the same section - and possibly from the same collection or collector - comprised porcelain with Frisian and East Frisian arms, such as De Pottere and Van Wingene. (Kroes 2007, pp.532-533) 

For this specific saucer, please see:

• Sold Ceramics - Sold Chine de commande - Armorial / Pseudo-Armorial wares 1700-1800 - Armorial - Dutch - Page 1 - Object 2012454.

• Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, (J. Kroes, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007), p.532, cat. no. S17.

(Reproduced from Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Chinese Porcelain with Coats of Arms of Dutch Families, (J. Kroes, Waanders Publishers, Zwolle, 2007), pp.532-533, cat. no. S17.)

Condition: Three hairlines to the body, issuing from one spot, circling the entire body. The nonmatching cover with some frits to the underside of the rim.

Reference:

Kroes 2007, cat. no. S17  

Price: Sold.

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