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A ‘BOSCOBEL OAK’ PUNCHBOWL
CIRCA 1745 39
Enameled in the center with Charles II hiding in the oak’s branches
near two cavaliers, the exterior with continuous farming scenes,
possibly in Shropshire
10º in. (26 cm.) diameter
$10,000-15,000

PROVENANCE:

Acquired from Plummer, New York, in 1953.

After the battle of Worcester on 3rd September 1651 Charles
escaped with Colonel Carlos to Boscobel House, the home of the
Penderell family, in Shropshire. It was here on the 6th September
that the King and Carlos hid in the famous oak tree to escape
discovery by Cromwellian troops.

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AN ‘AMSTERDAM WATERFRONT’ PLATE
CIRCA 1740
Finely painted with a view of the Nieuwe Stadsherberg, the public
house on the River Ij in Amsterdam, with the masts of ships visible
behind it and sailors rowing two small boats in the foreground
$7,000-9,000

PROVENANCE:

Christie’s, New York, January 1999, lot 84.

See C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 108 for a 1664 Dutch
engraving of the Stadsherberg, which stood on the Amsterdam wharf
from 1662 to 1872, and, in the words of Howard and Ayers, op.
cit., p. 193, must have been where the V.O.C. sailors “spent their
last hours before embarkation.... and the first on their return”.