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拍品 337
An enamelled 'European Subject' teapot, cover and a tray
CIRCA 1720-1730
已結束1999年10月19日
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NLG 9,946
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The couple depicted on the teapot and tray is often referred to as Governor Duff and his wife, which is suggested to be the name the Chinese gave Diederik Duiver (1676-1740), Governor of the Dutch East India Company from 1729-1731, as they were unable to pronounce his name correctly. The same couple has also been described as Louis XIV and Mme de Montespan or simply a Frisian couple. Both D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer and M. Beurdely are in agreement, however, that the subject is Dutch rather than French.