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A similar piece is illustrated in Western Influence of Japanese Art, Fukuoka City Art Museum, 1995
18TH CENTURY
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An Arita Dutch decorated apothecary bottle,
18th Century
Painted in coloured enamels with a portrait of Willem IV in profile below a coronet, the banderole underneath inscribed: "W.C.H.F. Pr. van Or. en Na. Erfstadhouder ErfKapiteijn, Admiraal en Generaal over de 7 Prov.", surrounded by feathery mantling enriched with branches of orange, repeated as a band below the ribbed cylindrical neck, the reverse with an orange tree and the inscription "nu is de Spruijt een Boom geworden" (rim restoration)
24cm. high
18th Century
Painted in coloured enamels with a portrait of Willem IV in profile below a coronet, the banderole underneath inscribed: "W.C.H.F. Pr. van Or. en Na. Erfstadhouder ErfKapiteijn, Admiraal en Generaal over de 7 Prov.", surrounded by feathery mantling enriched with branches of orange, repeated as a band below the ribbed cylindrical neck, the reverse with an orange tree and the inscription "nu is de Spruijt een Boom geworden" (rim restoration)
24cm. high