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An armorial Dutch market conical chocolate pot and a cover
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An armorial Dutch market conical chocolate pot and a cover

CIRCA 1720

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An armorial Dutch market conical chocolate pot and a cover
Circa 1720
Enamelled primarily in iron-red and gilt and enriched with green, blue, and aubergine enamels, one side decorated with a coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet, between prunus and bamboo issuing beside pierced rockwork and a fence, the neck and base encircled by a cell-pattern border, the curved spout set at a right angle from the handle, the matched pierced domed cover surmounted by a knop finial, finial restuck
12.5 cm. high

Specialist note

The arms are those of Jan Albert Sichterman (1692-1764), who was Director of the V.O.C. (Dutch East India Comapny) in Bengal from 1734-1744. He returned to his house in Groningen in 1745 with numerous services along with other works of art from the Orient. There are four known varieties of this service. See C.J.A. Jörg & J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 306, pl. 359, and D.S. Ayers & J. Ayers, China for the West, 1978, vol.2, p. 401, pl. 399.