A The Hague-decorated Ansbach porcelain bottle cooler, 1776-1790

each side with a gilt roundel surmounted by a puce ribbon, one painted with a festive company drinking punch, the other with a musical genre scene, connected by a trailing floral garland issuing from the gilt dentil and line rims, with rocaille handles, 19.5 cm. high, 26.5 cm. wide, blue overglaze stork mark, label of hofleverancier Nijstad Lochem/Den Haag, inv. no. 4-77

Paleis Soestdijk

In good condition. Some minor usual rubbing to the gilding and slight scratches to the glaze. A small shallow chip (ca. 0.4 cm. wide) to the inner upper rim. Some small flakes of enamel missing of the musical genre scene and two leaves of the garland.
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Nijstad Antiquairs was granted the royal warrant by Prins Bernhard in 1955.