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CERAMICS FOR GRAND EUROPEAN HOUSES

After centuries of blue and white china, the plants. In 1685, when she became heiress the seventeenth century, sideboard tables or
novel pure white of Kakiemon enamelled presumptive to the English throne, Mary stepped buffets were sited for the display of
wares with brightly coloured flowers caused was devoting her attention to the creation one’s wealth and taste. At times of financial
considerable delight in the late 17th century. of her garden villa at the palace of Het crisis the precious plate could be returned
It contrasted with the interiors of predomi- Loo, where she was assisted by the émi- to coinage and their place on the sideboard
nantly black hues of fashionable ebony, lac- gré Huguenot Daniel Marot (1661-1752), substituted with porcelain. The publication
quer and ebonised or japanned furnishings. appointed architect to William of Orange. of Oevres du Sr . D. Marot (The Hague, 1703
James II’s interest in porcelain was no Mary and Marot created a dazzling cab- or 1712) helped to popularise the William
doubt fostered by his daughter Mary Stuart. inet of Het Loo with its paintings hung and Mary style and the fashion of furnish-
Through her marriage in 1677 to the Dutch between pilasters decked with porcelain ing with porcelain. Fashionable ladies who
Stadtholder William II or Orange she had on gilt brackets. Additional items lined the mimicked the Queen’s mania for china,
become a fanatical gardener and patroness mantelshelf and were reflected in the land- were said to have ruined their families and
of the Delft factories, which provided the scape-glass, which was surmounted by the estates with grievous expenses of their por-
handsome garden pots and vases for her pediment-shaped pyramid of porcelain. In celain collecting.

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THE PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN COLLECTOR
UNKNOWN ARTIST
DUTCH SHIPS (ORANDA BUNE)
EDO PERIOD, 19 TH CENTURY
阿蘭陀船、江戸時代、19世紀
woodblock print, depicting two Dutch ships, one of which
is firing a salute at Deshima (Nagasaki Bay)
horizontal oban:
29.2 x 21 cm., 11⅜ x 8¼ in.
The same image is illustrated in Willem van Gulik,
The Dutch in Nagasaki - 19th-Century Japanese Prints
(Amsterdam, 1998), p. 57.

‡ £ 1,500-2,000
€ 1,800-2,350 US$ 2,000-2,650

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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
NOBUHARU ISONO (DATES UNKNOWN)
NAGASAKI MIYAGE [NAGASAKI SOUVENIR
ALBUM]
EDO PERIOD, LATE 19 TH CENTURY
磯野信春（生没年不詳）、長崎土産、江戸時代、19世紀
後期
1 volume book, woodblock printed,green cover, title
page inside cover, 7 leaves of preface and introduction,
followed by 2 single-page and 14 double-page
illustrations, followed by 18 leaves of text
guide to Nagasaki, depicting among others Nagasaki bay
with Dutch ships and Chinese boats, Dutch traders on the
island of Deshima and Chinese traders at the Tōjin-yashiki
[Chinese residence]
23 x 17 cm., 9 x 6⅝ in.
£ 1,500-2,000
€ 1,800-2,350 US$ 2,000-2,650
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