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5. Taperstick. Chinese (probably Dutch market), ca. I700-I710. 6. Standing Covered Cup. Chinese (European market),
Hard paste. H. 5/4 in. (I3.3 cm). Helena Woolworth McCann ca. I690-I700. Hard paste. H. 9 in. (22.9 cm). Purchase by
Collection, Purchase, Winfield Foundation Gift, 1970 (1970.266.3) subscription, I879 (79.2.242a, b)

is
The stepped, square-sectionedform of the taperstick derivedfrom A very similarform has been recorded in Netherlandish glass of about
late-seventeenth-century metalwork, but this example-with its I690, and glass may have been the inspirationfor this goblet; but the
zoned decoration-is
suggest
multiple stages and carefully probably based multiple turnings and the highly organized decoration a
on a painted wood model. painted wood model as its immediate source. Ten variant examples
of the goblet, similarly painted, werefound in the cargo of the Vung
junk boundfor Batavia that sank
Tau, a Chinese off the southern
coast Vietnam about 1690-1700. Byfar the largestportion of the
of
of
cargo consisted diferent types of vases, a clear indication that it was
intended to meet the newfashion in northern Europefor collecting
as interior decoration to be
on
Chineseporcelain displayed furniture,
on floors, and on shelves covering entire walls.

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