Details
Each unusually painted with European figures before a balustrade, including a woman holding a cushion, the sides and tops in the Chinoiserie taste with various views of either figures taking tea, figures seated in a garden or in landscapes, garden views, or scrolling vine, the reverse of one with possible 'wild men' standing on a shoreline
458 in. (11.6 cm.) and 434 in. (12 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 25 September 2001, lot 28.
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Lot Essay

The unusual European subjects on these caddies are almost certainly based on engravings of the period. For a teacaddy with Europeans on a chequerboard floor and with similar drapery swags, see D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, München, 1984, p. 22, no. 107.

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