MID 18TH CENTURY

Details

An encre-de-Chine 'farewell sailor' teabowl and saucer
Mid 18th Century
Decorated en grisaille with touches of enamelling and gilt with a farewell scene, showing a European couple in embrace beside a tree and with a church in the background, the gentleman pointing towards a three-mast ship with Dutch flags with which he will set sail shortly, all within a gilt and black double-line border, minute rim fritting

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1979, lot 199.
Dr. Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. J-87).

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.

Sale room notice

Please note that the right hand side teabowl and saucer in the illustation is not lot 1313 as mentioned in the catalogue.

Lot Essay

This scene is traditionally known as 'The Sailor's Farewell' of which a variety of interpretations are known. It was a popular subjectmatter in the 18th century, with those whose loved ones had left for the Far East.
A plate in coloured enamels is illustrated in Hervouët et Bruneau, La Porcelaine des Compagnies des Indes à Décor Occidental, Paris, 1986, p. 54-55, fig. 2.48; in M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, p. 68, pl. 43; and in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, London, 1974, fig, 248

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