A VAN REVERHORST SAUCEBOAT AND COVER

CIRCA 1745

细节

A VAN REVERHORST SAUCEBOAT AND COVER
CIRCA 1745
The top enamelled with a quarterly coat-of-arms surmounted by a coronet and winged horse head crest, encircled by eight smaller coats-of-arms each named below, gilt florettes inside and out
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) long (2)

拍品专文

This apparently unique service displays the arms of the eight great-grandparents of Adriaan van Reverhorst (1720-51) of the Hague or of his brother Theodorus (1706-58), both prominent in the V.O.C. Le Corbeiller (op. cit., pp. 96-99) notes that the service "must have been unusually extensive", and that this covered shape, based on a silver form, is apparently unique within either Delft or Chinese export