A RARE 'TRUMPETER' SPOON TRAY

CIRCA 1740

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A RARE 'TRUMPETER' SPOON TRAY
Circa 1740
Finely enamelled with two Moors, one playing a trumpet suspending a yellow standard and the other blowing a French horn, all reserved on a deep black ground and withihn a series of three gilt borders
5 1/8in. (13cm.) wide

Lot Essay

From a small number of tea services probably designed by Cornelis Pronk as a private order. D.S. Howard points out that two versions were made, this one and one with a simpler, gilt spearhead border, illustrating both from the Hodroff collection (op. cit., p. 178). Others of the present type were in the collection of Mary, Viscountess Rothermere, sold Christie's New York, 16 April 1994, lots 31-32. A wastebowl with simpler border was in the Mottahedeh colleciton, sold Sotheby's New York, 19 October 2000, lot 235

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