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A blanc de chine 'Governor Duff' group
depicting a European gentleman and his wife seated at a table holding wine glasses, he in a frock coat and tricorn hat and she in a skirt and hooded cloak similar to their son and daughter standing before them, a bowl of food set on the small Chinese table, a dog seated in the foreground beside a jardiniere of flowers and a monkey holding a peach -- 5¾in. (14.5cms) wide, late 17th early 18th century, (small chips to extremities, item at rear of table partly chipped off, firing cracks to rear).
See Colour Plate 77
The main figure is known as Governor Duff, which is suggested is the name the Chinese gave Diederick Duiver, Governor of the Dutch East India Company. Similar groups are illustrated by Donnelly, pl.117A and by Howard and Ayers, p.94, no.55.
depicting a European gentleman and his wife seated at a table holding wine glasses, he in a frock coat and tricorn hat and she in a skirt and hooded cloak similar to their son and daughter standing before them, a bowl of food set on the small Chinese table, a dog seated in the foreground beside a jardiniere of flowers and a monkey holding a peach -- 5¾in. (14.5cms) wide, late 17th early 18th century, (small chips to extremities, item at rear of table partly chipped off, firing cracks to rear).
See Colour Plate 77
The main figure is known as Governor Duff, which is suggested is the name the Chinese gave Diederick Duiver, Governor of the Dutch East India Company. Similar groups are illustrated by Donnelly, pl.117A and by Howard and Ayers, p.94, no.55.