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A RARE PAIR OF ARMORIAL KENDI FOR THE DUTCH MARKET The arms belong to the Heere family of Middelburg, the Netherlands.
18th century This family, originally from the Rotterdam area, included several
Each with a globular body rising from a short straight foot to a tall painters among its members, in addition to a Governor of Ceylon for
narrow neck with flaring mouth, set to one side of the shoulder with a the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in 1697, and other members
short mamiform spout, brightly enamelled and gilt to either side with a who were part of the VOC at the beginning of the 18th century.
large coat-of-arms and helmet crest of De Heere.
23.3cm (9 1/2in) high. (2). The accollé coats of arms are those of Jan de Heere and his wife
(unidentified), who married in 1704. However, given the likely date of
£5,000 - 7,000 production, it would seem more plausible that this pair of kendi was
produced for Huijbert Johan de Heere (1731-1777) who had left the
CNY45,000 - 63,000
Netherlands to join the VOC in Batavia; he married Jacoba Frederica
Nemegheer in Sumatra in 1758 and returned to the Netherlands in
十八世紀 荷蘭家族紋章軍持一對 1763, probably with all these armorial ceramics.

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