TWO RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT TEA PIECES

CIRCA 1725

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TWO RARE EUROPEAN SUBJECT TEA PIECES
Circa 1725
A caddy with brass cover and a small tray, each of chamfered square outline and decorated in shades of iron-red, gilt, black and green enamel with the scene known as Governor Duff and his wife, showing the Dutch couple strolling in an fenced Chinese garden, their small hound at their side, all within cell borders interrupted by flowerhead cartouches, caddy with later brass cover
4¼in. (10.8cm.) high, 4 5/8in. (11.8cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

The caddy from the collection of Mrs. J.W. Griffith, sold Sotheby's New York, 15 October 1993, lot 77

Lot Essay

Although popularly thought to depict Governor-General Duiven, posted by the Dutch East India Company to Batavia 1729-31, or alternatively Louis XV of France, no print source has so far been identified to confirm that it is either. See D.S. Howard, Choice of the Private Trader, p. 62

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