CIRCA 1730

Details

A fine and rare famille rose armorial tea bowl and saucer
Circa 1730
Enamelled primarily in rose, green and yellow with a central coat-of-arms flanked by lion supporters and surmounted by a crown, above the V.O.C. monogram within a leafy mantling, the border inscribed CONCORDIA RES PARVAE CRESCUNT.1728 (sic), below a striped band at the rim, the V.O.C. monogram repeated to the interior of the cup, minute rim frit

Provenance

Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-183).

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Lot Essay

The arms are those of the State of Holland, with the V.O.C. cypher of the Dutch East India Company. The design was probably taken from a silver ducatoon of 1728 with the rim imitating the ribbed milling of the coin. A very similar teabowl and saucer is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain Periods of K'ang Hsi, Yung Chêng and Ch'ien Lung, London, 1927, pl.110a.
For further information, see footnote of lot 1307.

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