Antique Chinese & Japanese PorcelainEuropean Ceramics & Works of Art
Pair of Japanese polychrome Dutch decorated apothecary bottles, 17th century, decorated in underglaze blue with the initials 'D.C.L.' within a laurel wreath with tassels, with long-tailed birds and insects among flowering shrubs issuing from rockwork with a banded bamboo-hedge, the neck with lappets containing flower sprays alternating with lancet leaves, height: 10in., 25.5cm. Provenance: from the collection of the descendants of Count Louis de Gontaut-Biron (1747-93).Large quantities of white-glazed apothecary bottles were imported from Japan and later decorated in Delft. This pair belong to a small number of bottles with initials in underglaze blue that were ordered by VOC officials in Batavia. For further details and to see an illustrated bottle with initials which have been identified see Corrigan et al, 'Asia in Amsterdam: The Culture of Luxury in the Golden Age', pp. 90-92. SOLD
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