A RARE PAIR OF CHINESE EXPORT ARMORIAL ROCOCO-STYLE WINE COOLERS FOR THE DUTCH MARKET, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD, 1767-69 | 清乾隆 1767-69年 粉彩紋章圖洛可可風格酒桶一對

Christie's New York, January 30th, 1992, lot 26

Christie's New York, January 29th, 1994, lot 47

For the arms, see Dr. Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market, Zwolle, 2007, pp. 345-346, cat. no. 266. The author notes that the five surviving examples of wine coolers from this service are of particular interest. He states that the form is quite rare and can be found in a French armorial service probably made for the Breton families of Hévin and Leissègues. Another pair of wine coolers from the same service is illustrated in Anthony du Boulay, Christie's Pictoral History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, p. 282, fig. 4. The author discusses the current examples which he notes are modeled after Swedish Marieberg faience examples, and were thought to have been made for the Swedish market, as stated by a catalogue note on a pair of examples first offered in these rooms, February 24th, 1967, lot 336. This attribution was later altered when select pieces were illustrated in Elinor Gordon, Collecting Chinese Export Porcelain, New York, 1977, p. 34, color pl. II, where the author indicated that these were pieces from a large service made for the Dutchman Adrianus van Tets and his second wife, Wilhelmina Jacoba Hartingh.