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Lot Essay
The use of Asiatic motifs in Dutch 17th and 18th Century silver is very rare. The most famous examples are the Chinese inspired silver and tortoise shell tea-caddies by Hendrik and Eusebius Willem Voet from Zwolle, which can be dated ca. 1700. An earlier chinoiserie tea-kettle with cut-card technique by Pieter Vos from Leeuwarden was made in 1697. The present caddy clearly shows Asiatic influence in its decoration and in its shape, e.g. the slightly diverging sides and the domed top. The basic shape of the caddy, rectangular with clipped concave corners, is identical to the earliest extant tea-caddy in The Netherlands, a plain example made by Willem Jansz van Leusden in 1670.
Literature:
B. Dubbe, J. Verbeek, 'De Zwolse zilversmid Hendrik Voet (1654-1737) veelzijdig kunstenaar en verzamelaar', in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 23, 1975, pp. 3-11.
J. Verbeek, 'De zilveren theebus in de Noordelijke Nederlanden voor 1750', in: Antiek 16 (9), 1982.
A.C. Beeling, Nederlands Zilver 1600-1813, III, Leeuwarden, no date, pp. 214-215, illustrated
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Literature:
B. Dubbe, J. Verbeek, 'De Zwolse zilversmid Hendrik Voet (1654-1737) veelzijdig kunstenaar en verzamelaar', in: Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum 23, 1975, pp. 3-11.
J. Verbeek, 'De zilveren theebus in de Noordelijke Nederlanden voor 1750', in: Antiek 16 (9), 1982.
A.C. Beeling, Nederlands Zilver 1600-1813, III, Leeuwarden, no date, pp. 214-215, illustrated
See illustration