An unusual Dutch silver 'chinese style' three-piece tea service

MAKER'S MARK J.M. VAN KEMPEN, VOORSCHOTEN, 1878

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An unusual Dutch silver 'chinese style' three-piece tea service
Maker's mark J.M. van Kempen, Voorschoten, 1878
Comprising a teapot, covered milk jug and tea caddy, oviform, each on plain tapering base, the bodies on both sides applied "en trois couleurs" with birds amidst flowering plants, the handles on the teapot and milk jug modelled suggesting bamboo applied with a dragon like animal, partly domed covers, each with flower and foliate finial
18cm. (7.1/8in.) high
on reverses
1180gr. (3)

拍品專文

Van Kempen was established in 1789 by Johannes Mattheus van Kempen, who started a workshop in Utrecht which was continued by his heirs. In 1851 the firm provided several important objects for the exhibition of 1851 in the Chrystal Palace, london.
The mechanization of the production process in the 1850s forced the van Kempen's to move their factory from Utrecht to Voorschoten. In the next decennia van Kempen became the most important silver factory in The Netherlands.
Besides silver objects in a restrained classic style, the factory produced considerable quantities of well made Art Nouveau silver

Literature:
J.R. ter Molen, Zilver, Rotterdam, 1994, p.629
A. Krekel-Aalberse, Modern Zilver 1880-1940, Amsterdam, 1989, pp. 177-180

See illustration