An encre-de-chine 'topographical' coffee-cup

CIRCA 1780-1790

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An encre-de-chine 'topographical' coffee-cup
Circa 1780-1790
Decorated with a medallion enclosing a view of the church, abbey and mint of Middelburg (Zeeland) after an engraving by Th. Koning, inscribed underneath 'Nieuwe Kerk.Abtdy Tooren en Munt', the rim encircled by a narrow crenellated and cell-pattern band

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The print is of the 'Nieuwe Kerk, Abtdytoren en Munt' by Theodorus Koning (1748-1829) in Zeelands Cronykalmanak, December 1777, a copy of which is in the Rijks Prentenkabinet, Amsterdam.
For a plate with a similar decoration in the Zeeuws Museum, Middelburg, see D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chine de Commande, 1974, ill. 305, 306.

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