Recent Acquisitions
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Latest update: Recent Acquisitions; December 11, 2024.
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.
Reference:
Price: Sold.
Blue and White Kangxi Period 1662-1722 - Miniature Doll's House Vases
Object 2010667
A miniature "doll's house" vase
China
1700-1720
Height 76 mm (2.99 inch), diameter 32 mm (1.26 inch), diameter of mouthrim 8 mm (0.31 inch), diameter of foot: 19 mm (0.75 inch), weight 31 grams (1.09 ounce (oz.))
A miniature "doll's house" vases on unglazed base. Decorated in underglaze-blue with flowering plants alternating with an insect in flight. Round the rim two concentric lines.
At the beginning of the 18th century, there was a fashion among wealthy Dutch ladies to have models made on the scale of a house, the so called "doll's houses". The rooms of these doll's houses were furnished with miniature pieces of porcelain, furniture, paintings, upholstery and all other sorts of objects that would have belonged to the interior of a wealthy home. These doll's houses were very costly and certainly not meant for children to play with but were proudly displayed for friends and visitors and regarded as extremely luxurious items - counterparts of the cabinets of curiosities that were a fashionable hobby of rich men. Only a few of these doll's houses have been preserved. One example can be found in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague showing an 18th century room with porcelain miniatures in cupboards and on brackets along the wall. In reality the majority of these "miniature doll's house vases" would have been part of the interior. A good example of an authentic porcelain room is the famous cabinet in Pommersfelden Castle, Germany, where groups of pieces on brackets are surrounded by these miniature vases lining the borders of the consoles. (Jörg & Flecker 2001, pp.50-51)
Condition: A firing flaw to the belly.
Reference:
Price: € 149 Currency Converter
Blue and White Kangxi Period 1662-1722 - Miniature Doll's House Vases
Object 2010789
Double-gourd vase
China
1700-1720
Height 65 mm (2.55 inch), diameter 33 mm (1.29 inch), diameter of mouthrim 11 mm (0.43 inch), diameter of foot 16 mm (0.63 inch), weight 35 grams (1.23 ounce (oz.))
A double-gourd miniature "doll's house" vase on footring, spherical body and tall, tapering neck rising from an angular swelling. Decorated in underglaze blue with a flowering peony spray and an insect in flight. Around the neck two flower sprays.
At the beginning of the 18th century, there was a fashion among wealthy Dutch ladies to have models made on the scale of a house, the so called "doll's houses". The rooms of these doll's houses were furnished with miniature pieces of porcelain, furniture, paintings, upholstery and all other sorts of objects that would have belonged to the interior of a wealthy home. These doll's houses were very costly and certainly not meant for children to play with but were proudly displayed for friends and visitors and regarded as extremely luxurious items - counterparts of the cabinets of curiosities that were a fashionable hobby of rich men. Only a few of these doll's houses have been preserved. One example can be found in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague showing an 18th century room with porcelain miniatures in cupboards and on brackets along the wall. In reality the majority of these "miniature doll's house vases" would have been part of the interior. A good example of an authentic porcelain room is the famous cabinet in Pommersfelden Castle, Germany, where groups of pieces on brackets are surrounded by these miniature vases lining the borders of the consoles. (Jörg & Flecker 2001, pp.50-51)
Condition: A very tiny, popped bubble of glaze to the angular swelling, caused by the firing process.
Reference:
Price: € 149 Currency Converter
Polychrome wares other since 1722
Object 2011543
Tea caddy
China
1730-1740
Height 117 mm (4.61 inch), dimensions 67 mm (2.56 inch) x 67 mm (2.64 inch), diameter of mouthrim 25 mm (0.98 inch), weight including cover 239 grams (8.43 ounce (oz.)), weight cover 2 grams (0.07 ounce (oz.))
Tea caddy of square form with canted corners, four flat feet at the corners, flat shoulder with a short unglazed upright neck. The original cover is missing and replaced with a metal cover (not perfectly fitting). Polychrome decorated in iron-red, gold and other overglaze enamels with flowering plants and insects in flight alternating with flowering peony and chrysanthemum plants and a bird perched on a branch looking at a butterfly in flight. Round the shoulder a floral border on an iron-red speckled ground. On the flat shoulder in each corner a single flower spray.
For identically shaped and similarly decorated tea caddies, please see:
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Sold Ceramics - Sold Polychrome wares other since 1722 - Page 1 - Object 2010563.
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Sold Ceramics - Sold Polychrome wares other since 1722 - Page 1 - Object 2010544.
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Sold Ceramics - Sold Polychrome wares other since 1722 - Page 3 - Objects 2010778 and 2010779.
Condition: Various glaze rough spots to the sides and edges.
Price: € 249 Currency Converter
Japanese Imari 1690-1800
Object 2011327
Covered bowl
Japan
c.1750
Bowl (without cover): height 66 mm (2.60 inch), diameter of rim 115 mm (4.53 inch), diameter of footring 47 mm (1.85 inch), weight 166 grams (5.86 ounce (oz.))
Cover: height 31 mm (1.22 inch), diameter of rim 101 mm (3.98 inch), diameter of ring 41 mm (1.61 inch), weight 74 grams (2.61 ounce (oz.))
Covered bowl on footring, steep sides, domed cover with ring handle. Imari, decorated in gold, iron-red, green and black enamel and a light pinkish goldwash. On the sides a large bird of prey perched on rockwork surrounded by flowering peony, bamboo, and pine trees. On the inside rim peach alternating floral designs. The cover is decorated en suite with on the inside a pomegranate spray with a bird of prey perched on its branch.
Condition: Some wear to gilding on the indside rim of the bowl otherwise both cover and bowl are in a perfect condition.
Price: € 249 Currency Converter
Japanese Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares 18th Century
Object 2012010C
Saucer
Japan
1700-1720
Height 22 mm (0.86 inch), diameter of rim 118 mm (4.65 inch), diameter of footring 68 mm (2.68 inch), weight 93 grams (3.28 ounce (oz.))
Saucer on footring, slightly everted rim. Imari decorated in underglaze blue, iron-red and gold with a three-piece garniture on a horizontal band over a diaper pattern. The covered jar is decorated with floral designs and zig zag lines pattern borders, the vases are decorated with rows of dots. One of the vases is filled with branches of flowering chrysanthemum and carnation the other with branches of flowering peony and carnation. The reverse is decorated with three stylized flower sprays and three blue circles round the foot. On the base a single blue circle.
An identically shaped, sized and decorated teacup and saucer is in the Dresden collection (Johanneum mark 'N:108'' and signum '+'.). It was acquired July 1723 from Count Flemming. (Reichel 1981, p.150, cat. 52)
For this identically shaped, sized and decorated teacup and saucer in the Dresden collection, please see:
- Early Japanese Porcelain: Arita Porcelain in the Dresden Collection, (F. Reichel, Londen 1981), cat. 52.
- SKD Online collection, PO. 5049.
Jörg states that the use of garnitures as a decorative motif on tea ware was probably done as a suggestion of luxury, he illustrates it with a teacup and saucer decorated with an interesting five-piece garniture. A similar but simplified motif is seen on Delftware pieces, which were probably inspired by such Japanese examples. (Jörg 2003/1, pp.198-199, cat. 250)
For a teacup and saucer decorated with a five-piece garniture, please see:
Condition: Perfect.
References:
SKD Online collection, PO. 5049
Price: Sold.
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