Recent Acquisitions
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Latest update: Recent Acquisitions; January 14, 2025.
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.
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Price: € 99 Currency Converter
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:
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.
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Price: Sold.
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