MID 18TH CENTURY

Details

A Dutch-decorated 'crucifixion' tea bowl and saucer
Mid 18th Century
Enamelled with Christ on the cross between a mourning figure of Mary and St. John, in the distance a hilly landscape with a church, encircled at the rim with an iron-red and gilt spearhead border, the cup additionally decorated with symbols of the Passion, a crown of thorns, nails and a hammer, minute rim chips and small cracks (2)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 13 March, 1978, lot 112 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-32).

Special notice

Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 20.825% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €90,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €90,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 20.825% of the first €90,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €90,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.

Lot Essay

For a teabowl and saucer with a similar pattern see Chinese Export Porcelain from the Reeves Collection at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia, p. 36, colour pl. VI, no. 3, cat. 120; a teabowl from the Musée de Caramulo, Portugal, is illustrated in Beurdeley, p. 209, cat. 233 and in Hervouët et Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 401, fig. 16.139. A variety of interpretations of this subjectmatter was made not only on Chinese decorated pieces, but also on Dutch-decorated pieces. The latter is clearly shown in eight examples illustrated in Hervouët et Bruneau, op. cit., p. 400 - 403, figs. 16.138 - 16.144. A similar example was sold at Christie's, New York, 23 January 2001, lot 129.

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