An Amsterdam Waterfront coffee cup

CIRCA 1765

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An Amsterdam Waterfront coffee cup
Circa 1765
Painted en grisaille, iron-red, blue, green and pink enamels with a view of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg, the public house on the River IJ in Amsterdam, with the masts of ships visible behind it and two rowing boats and a ship in the foreground

Lot Essay

See C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 108 for a 1664 Dutch engraving of the Stadsherberg, which stood on the Amsterdam wharf from 1662 to 1872, and in the words of Howard & Ayers, China for the West, p. 193, must have been where the V.O.C. sailors ...'spent their last hours before embarkation...and the first on their return'.
Also for a plate with a similar decoration, see D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, pl. 243.

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