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PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT A. LANDAU COLLECTION
THREE RARE DUTCH-DECORATED 'WONDER OF ZAANDAM' PIECES
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY
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THREE RARE DUTCH-DECORATED 'WONDER OF ZAANDAM' PIECES
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY
Decorated with 'The Bull's Cruelty', after the Dutch painting, depicting a farmer and his wife attacked by a bull, the wife thrown up in the air giving premature birth to a baby which falls on the ground together with her shoes, a boy flying a kite on the right, comprising a sgraffito-ground plate and a tea bowl and saucer inscribed in black paint '29 Augustus 1647'
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diameter, the plate
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY
Decorated with 'The Bull's Cruelty', after the Dutch painting, depicting a farmer and his wife attacked by a bull, the wife thrown up in the air giving premature birth to a baby which falls on the ground together with her shoes, a boy flying a kite on the right, comprising a sgraffito-ground plate and a tea bowl and saucer inscribed in black paint '29 Augustus 1647'
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diameter, the plate
Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1993, lot 289 (the tea bowl and saucer)
Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 May 1997, lot 154 (the plate)
Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 May 1997, lot 154 (the plate)