Lot 86
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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE VOC TEABOWL AND SAUCER
A RARE FAMILLE ROSE VOC TEABOWL AND SAUCER

CIRCA 1730

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A RARE FAMILLE ROSE VOC TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Circa 1730
Enamelled in vibrant, opaque famille rose colors with the arms of Holland, the crowned rampant lion holding a sword and a sheaf of seven arrows, flanked by the crowned lion supporters and above or opposite the VOC monogram within a scrollwork cartouche, all below the motto of the Dutch Republic CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT 1728, the interior with VOC in pink (2)

Lot Essay

From a small group of plates and tea pieces after the 1728 Dutch ducatoon coined for use in the Dutch East Indies. See D.S. Howard and J.S. Ayers, op. cit., p. 194 for a plate from the Motthedeh collection; a teapot in the Rijksmuseum is illustrated by Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit., pl. 267.