QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1765

Name: A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT' TEABOWL AND SAUCER
Brand: QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1765
Price: 5000.00 USD
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Price Realised USD 6,300

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Closed: 24 Oct 2022

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN 'AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT' TEABOWL AND SAUCER

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), CIRCA 1765

Price Realised USD 6,300

Closed: 24 Oct 2022

Price Realised USD 6,300

Closed: 24 Oct 2022

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Finely painted with a view of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg, with numerous revelers at the windows of the inn and passing ﬁgures on the quay, the waterfront with anchored sailing ships, all below pale clouds
14⁷⁄₈ in. (12.5 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 2 February 1991, lot 103.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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Lot Essay

The view depicted is of the Stadts-Herbergh (or Nieuwe Stadsherberg), the tavern built in 1662 and demolished in 1872. The building fronted the River Ij in Amsterdam and was a popular haunt for generations of Dutch V.O.C. (East India Company) sailors, who most probably made it their first and last port of call between voyages. It has been suggested that this subject of decoration must have been commissioned for the centennial of the tavern (see D. Howard and J. Ayers, , London and New York, 1974, I, p. 193, no. 190). No exact print source for this decoration has yet been discovered, but C. Le Corbeiller illustrates one (published 1664) in , New York, 1974, p. 108 of a very similar view.