Recent Acquisitions
On this page you'll find my latest acquisitions.
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Latest update: Recent Acquisitions; May 4, 2026.
Chinese Imari 1700-1800 - Tea, Coffe and Chocolate wares
Object 2012691
Saucer
China
1730-1750
Height 21 mm (0.83 inch), diameter of rim 113 mm (4.45 inch), diameter of footring 57 mm (2.24 inch), weight 69 grams (2.43 ounce (oz.))
Saucer on footring, slightly everted rim. Chinese Imari, decorated in underglaze blue, overglaze iron-red and gold with a seated figure with a walking cane and a clearly European appearance, hair style and clothing, in the background a fence with flowering plants.
Sotheby's Ca Mau Shipwreck, circa 1725, auction sale catalogue shows an illustration intended to provide instructions for the Chinese porcelain painters on the ways and appearance of unfamiliar foreigners. The foreigner depicted on this saucer is clearly such an unfamiliar (European) foreigner. (Amsterdam 2007, pp.213-214)
Condition: Some glaze rough spots to the rim.
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Price: € 249 Currency Converter
Japanese Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares 18th Century
Object 2011287
Tea bowl and saucer
Japan
1700-1730
Height of tea bowl 40 mm (1.57 inch), diameter of rim 62 mm (2.44 inch), diameter of footring 25 mm (0.98 inch), weight 40 grams (1.41 ounce (oz.))
Height of saucer 22 mm (0.87 inch), diameter of rim 113 mm (4.45 inch), diameter of footring 48 mm (1.89 inch), weight 83 grams (2.93 ounce (oz.))
Tea bowl and saucer on footrings with spreading sides with slightly flaring rims. Imari decorated in underglaze blue and gold with a flowerpot filled with flowering cherry stems in a central roundel. On the sides three reserves filled with a bird in flight amongst flowering plants an leafy branches, alternating with a leafy flowering chrysanthemum stem in gold on an underglaze blue ground. The tea bowl is decorated en suite.
Condition: The footring of the tea bowl with glazed firing flaws.
Price: € 149 Currency Converter
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