A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR CHINOISERIE TEACADDIES; with short neck, the flat horizontal shoulders with chinamen;

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A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR CHINOISERIE TEACADDIES; with short neck, the flat horizontal shoulders with chinamen;
-one with a frontal cartouche depicting chinamen smoking and drinking, the reverse with various gentlemen on an operatic balcony, the sides with floral branches - one with a frontal cartouche depicting a lady and a huge following of female attendants on an operatic balcony, the reverse with savages (wildemannen) on a shore, marked with pseudo-chinese ideograms, late 17th Century
9.5 cm high (2)

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These teacaddies bear a peculiar iconograpy possibly related to the settlement of the Dutch in South America during the 17th Century

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