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Extremely Japanese Rare Lacquer Plaque Depicting Russian St. Petersburg
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese lacquer Maki-É Panel Depicting St. Petersburg on the River Neva, with the winter palace on the left and the academy of science on the right, 18th century.
Nagasaki, 1780-1800
In black lacquer on copper, the front decorated in maki-é, the back inscribed, Vue Perspective des Bords de la Neva en descendant la Rivière entre le Palais d'hyver de sa Majesté Impériale et les batiments de l'Académie des Sciences à St Petersburg in gold and inlaid with flowers in mother of pearl.
Measures: H 23 x W 39 cm
The present plaque is identical to one in the Museum of Japanese History in Sakura and another one in the Museum of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg. (see: Oliver Impey & Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850, p. 52-53)
This last one was given to Catherine the Great in 1794 by the Swedish medical doctor Johan Arnold Stutzer who had served with the VOC in Deshima in 1787-1788. Apparently, such plaques were not unique and may have been made in several copies. This was certainly the case with the smaller lacquer oval portrait medallions (see for instance Uit Verre Streken, June 2017, no. 62)
The scene of St. Petersburg was copied from an optical print taken by Stutzer to Japan, as shown by Yasumasa Oka of the Kobe City Museum. Stutzer in his diary writes: “I am the first to bring them (i.e. the Japanese) original pictures such as a view of St Petersburg and of Rudolf XV on horseback and try to have them made (in lacquer). According to the Japanese, it is the first time that these two pictures will be copied. Other products that I also ordered, for example, pictures of sea battles, are also appreciated as absolute masterpieces”.
For two lacquered plaques depicting the sea battle of Dogger Bank in 1781 between the Dutch and the English navies, see Uit Verre Streken, December 2013, nr. 39 and March 2015, nr 56. Johan Strutzer at the same time also presented six beautiful Japanese glass telescopes to Catherine the Great of Russia, like the two Japanese glass telescopes illustrated in Uit Verre Streken, March 2015, item 59 and 60 and the one in the Kobe City Museum (illustrated in: Japan Envisions the West, 16th-19th Century Japanese Art...
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Antique Late 18th Century Japanese Decorative Art
Materials
Copper
Rare Chinese Tonkin Ware Cup-and-Saucer, Early 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese made tonkin ware gilt- and lacquer cup and saucer
China or Japan, Chinese artisans, early 18th century
The black-lacquered cup with gilt handles in the shape of sculptured chrysanthemums and a lobbed edge decorated with gilt engraved border, with a gilt foot-ring that fits into the saucer ring, with two cartouches showing partly undercut gilt relief trees and birds on a gilt granulated background, black lacquered bracket-lobed edge, depicting gilt engraved peony scrolls and three cartouches decorated with high relief gilt trees and birds on a gilt granulated background, the centre with engraved chrysanthemum, enclosed by a raised ring upon which the cup fits, around which a circular panel decorated with high gilt relief trees, flowers, birds and a butterfly on a gilt granulated background.
Measures: Cup: H. 5.7 x W. 8.5 cm
Saucer: Diameter 13 cm
Provenance:
Collection Felix Schäfer
Note:
The decoration of the cup and saucer is identical to the slightly smaller cup and saucer...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Metalwork
Materials
Other
Fine Dutch Colonial Djati Bench, First Half of the 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine small Indonesian, possibly Ambonese, Djati wood bench
First half of the 18th century
The back splat elaborately carved in scrolling foliate and floral motif, the plain, ...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Furniture
Materials
Cane, Hardwood
Pair of Colonial Hardwood Side Chairs with Rattan Seats, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of hardwood, possibly Intsia Bijuga, side chairs, first half of the 18th century.
Indonesia, Jakarta (Batavia) or India, first half ...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Bronze Portrait Bust of a Black Man 'Marbruk' by Arthur Kaan
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Artur Kaan (Austrian, 1867-1940)
'Marbruk'
Signed and dated A. Kaan '95 and Verwielfältigung vorbehalten (reproduction reserved)
Bronze on marble base, H 28.5 cm?
Note:
...
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Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Busts
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Set of Six Colonial Safari Armchairs with Animals in the Back Splats
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A set of six French Directoire chairs with figural back splats depicting African animals
France, early 19th century
Each in elm and pea...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Directoire Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Elm, Pearwood
Early Papua Korwar Statue, Collection of Missionary Starrenburg, Collected 1909
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Papua wood figure of a Korwar
North West Irian Jaya, Vogelkop area, coastal Geelvink Bay, present-day Cenderawasih Bay, early 20th century
The seated Korwar is holding an ope...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Portrait of a Balinese Beauty by Theo Meier in Original Frame
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
Early 20th Century Balinese Dutch Colonial Paintings and Screens
Materials
Other
Collection of Colonial Drawings Depicting Indonesia by J.G. Sinia '1875-1948'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Collection of Thirteen Ink and Chalk Drawings by Johan Gerard Sinia (1875-1948)
All framed in gilt-metal or giltwood frames
Sinia started his professional career as an army off...
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Early 20th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Paintings and Screens
Materials
Other
Pair of Colonial Lacquered and Gilt Teak Torchères or Candle Stands
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of Indonesian lacquered and gilt teak torchères or candle stands
Probably Jakarta (Batavia), 18th century
Each on three spreading feat with human hand-shaped foot, knobb...
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Antique 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Furniture
Materials
Giltwood
Two Dutch Colonial Tortoiseshell Bible Boxes with Silver Mounts, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Tortoiseshell and silver
H. 5 x W. 22 x D. 12 cm
Tortoiseshell and silver
H. 4.3 x W. 17 x D. 9.5 cm
The function of bible boxes in the Dutch East Indies was just as much a status symbol, to show off one's wealth on the way to church, as it was to hold a small bible or hymnbook. Bible boxes existed in gold, silver, ivory, sometimes inlaid with precious stones, and in Coromandel or ebony wood. In the Dutch East Indies on the way to church, the women tried to display their fortune by the costliness of her bible box. The highest-ranking women had gold bible boxes, inlaid with precious stones, carried by a slave. The lower-ranking women had wooden bible boxes as the present ones. In 1754 Governor-General Jacob Mossel decreed that only the wives and widows of a Governor-General, Director General, Councillor of India or President of the Justice Council, were allowed to carry golden boxes...
Category
Antique 18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Vases
Materials
Silver
Fine Indian Silver Filigree Casket with Hinged Cover, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of very fine silver filigree rosewater sprinklers
Possibly India, Karimnagar, early 18th century
Measures: Height 31.6 cm and 31.7 cm,...
Category
Antique 18th Century Indian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Rare Complete Early 19th Century Indian Sadeli Work and Writing Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare complete Indian Sadeli inlaid work and writing box
British India, Bombay (present-day Mumbai), early 19th century
Micromosaic inlaid wood, with fitted bone interior and tools, and silver fittings.
H. 12.6 x W. 43.2 x D. 28.5 cm
Note:
Workboxes, portable writing desks...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Indian More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture
Materials
Bone, Wood
Pair of Amsterdam Decorated Japanese Arita Bottles, circa 1700
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Two fine Japanese Arita Amsterdam decorated or 'clobbered' bottles
Edo period late 17th-early 18th century
The smaller one is decorated with a lambrequin and under it, one perched, one flying pheasant and a fly among prunus, peony and bamboo, the larger one with on the belly also one flying, one perched pheasant and a fly and in addition a butterfly amongst tree peony and chrysanthemums under a frieze on the shoulder of cartouches with floral decoration.
?
H. 21 cm, content: 1.4 liter
H. 27.5 cm, content: 2.2 liter
Note:
These bottles arrived undecorated in the Netherlands where they were decorated in the Chinoiserie and Kakiemon style with red, green, blue, black, yellow and aubergine enamels and sometimes with gold.
“Dutch” decorated white Arita bottles are often called “Amsterdam’s bont...
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Antique Late 17th Century Dutch Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
Taxidermy Free-Standing Blackbuck Antelope
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Taxidermy Blackbuck (Antilope Cervicapra)
20th century
Mounted free-standing with the head turned.
Measure: H 107 cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Victorian Display with Taxidermy Birds of Paradise by Jane C. Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare Australian Victorian display cabinet with birds of paradise by Jane Catherine Ward (1817-1889)
Sydney, circa 1880
Wi...
Category
Antique 19th Century Australian Late Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Vibrantly Coloured Peacock Pheasant Wall Mount, 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A taxidermy grey peacock-pheasant (POLYPLECTRON BICALCARATUM)
20th century
Naturalistically mounted on a wood branch, in courting position, showing its peacock-eyed plumage, ...
Category
20th Century Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Very Large Edwardian Display Cabinet with Sea-Birds, circa 1900
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very large Edwardian taxidermy case with European sea-birds
Early 20th century
The birds perched on a rocky sea ledge with droppings and plants, naturalistically mounted...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Victorian Display Box with Taxidermy Turako's, Rowland Ward, Late 19th Century
By Rowland Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Victorian display case with taxidermy turaco birds, labelled for and by George F. Butt for Rowland Ward
Late 19th-early 20th century
The...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Late Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Splendid Taxidermy Argus Pheasant 'Argusianus Argus', Zoo Animal
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Very Impressive Taxidermy Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus Argus)
21st century, mounted by Zoologisk konservator Mikkel Carlsen (Denmark)
Mounte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Extremely Fine Chinese Silk Embroidered Bed-Cover for the Dutch Market
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese red silk, embroidered bed cover
Guangdong or Macao, mid-18th century
The red silk cover, one one side elaborately embroided in co...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Tapestries
Materials
Gold, Silver
Large Japanese Namban Lacquer Coffer Arqueta, 16th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Japanese Namban lacquer arqueta coffer for the Portuguese market
Kyoto, Momoyama-period, late 16th century
In Hinoki cypress lacquered in ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Japanese Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
17th Cent. Dutch Colonial Ebony Chair Formerly Owned by the Duke of Westminster
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indian ebony low chair formerly owned by the Duke of Westminster
Coromandel coast, possibly Madras, 1680-1700
Overall densely carved with an array of mermaids, birds, fish, mythological figures and floral and vine motifs, the back-rails are centered by a parrot (the attribute of Kama, the Hindu god of love) below a scallop shell (an attribute of Aphrodite/Venus) with a fleur-de-lis (a symbol of the Virgin Mary), the shell supported by two small human figures and a pair of mermaids, another Western element, but also a representation of the Hindu snake goddess...
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Antique Late 17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Side Chairs
Materials
Ebony
Colonial Painting by Willem Imandt of the Merapi & Meraboe Vulcano
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Willem Imandt (1882-1967)
The Merapi and Meraboe vulcanos, central Java as seen from Willem Imandt’s villa at Moentilan, circa 1922
Signed Imandt lower right
Measures: Oil on c...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Victorian Cabinets with Taxidermy Quetzal by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of extremely rare Victorian display cabinets with taxidermy resplendent quetzal (PHAROMACHRUS MOCINNO), cotinga and hummingbirds, attribute...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Pair of Fine Desk Globes by J. Cary, 1816 and 1824
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of desk globes by J. Cary
“Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best Authorities extant; exhibiting the late discoveries toward the North Pole and every improve...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Maps
Materials
Other
Rare Anthropological Diorama of Carib Indigenous by Hendrik Schouten
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Hendrik Samuel Schouten (1785-1840)
A unique diorama depicting Carib Indigenous at the river side
Wood, paint on paper, twigs and dried moss
Measures: H. 51 x W. 69.5 x D. 20 cm
Note:
This is the only known diorama by Hendrik Schouten. He became a planter and inherited the Jagtlust plantation from his grandfather Samuel Loske. His older brother Gerrit Schouten...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Paper, Paint, Giltwood, Wood, Twig
Colonial Silver VOC 'East-India Company' Ingot
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A silver 'V.O.C. AMSTERDAM' ingot
circa 1738, with monogram and the assay mark of the Amsterdam Grill family
With V.O.C. monogram and the A for Amsterdam.
L. approx. 15.5 cm
Weight approx. 2000 grams
Note:
The ingots were salvaged in 2004 from the wreck of the VOC indiaman Rooswijk, equipped by the Amsterdam VOC Chamber. The Rooswijk sank on its second voyage to the Dutch East Indies off the English coast on the Goodwin Sands...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
Orientalist Turkomania Wood Sculpture of an Ottoman, Early 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A carved and painted wood 'TURKOMANIA' sculpture of an ottoman soldier
French or Dutch Turkomania, early 19th century
Depicted in standing position, with a sword in one hand and a club in the raised other, with a fur hat, long moustache and long coat, on a square base.
Measures: H. 58 cm
Note:
During the Dutch War of Independence from 1568 till 1648, the Dutch and Turks were allies against Roman Catholic Spain and the slogan of the Dutch was “liever Turks dan Paaps” (rather Muslim than Roman Catholic).
In 1612 the first Dutch ambassador arrived in Istanbul. Nevertheless, in Holland, there was also the image of the cruel and heretic Turk stemming from the frequent violent clashes between Dutch ships and the pirates from Algiers, usually called the “Turkish pirates”. When the Ottoman armies advanced against Vienna, in the eyes of many Europeans the Islam bent on destroying Christianity. Later in the early 19th century, although the Turkish threat to Europe was long gone, the image of the Turks deteriorated again because of the Greek uprising.
The Sultan Mahmud II understood that Turkey had to modernize along West European lines and among other things in 1808 he replaced the “picturesque” oriental clothing...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Dutch Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Rare 17th Century Silver Reliquary Arm Monstrance
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare silver reliquary arm with relic bone, with the coat-of-arms of Cosme Roger (1671-1710), bishop of Lombez, France, with original bone relic
Poss...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, third quarter of the 19th century
On two scrolling foliate feet with casters, above which a rectangular two-side glazed frame, with on top a two-sided shield with initial...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
House temple in Singaradja, 1904
Located in Amsterdam, NL
House temple in Singaradja, 1904
Signed with initials upper centre and described with location and date, lower centre (vaguely in pencil 11 oct.). Pencil, ink and watercolour on pap...
Category
Late 19th Century Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
A Buginese boat, Semarang 1898
Located in Amsterdam, NL
'A Buginese boat, Semarang 1898’
Signed, dated, and annotated, upper right Pen, brush and ink on cardboard, H. 11.4 x W. 26.3 cm
Literature: Venselaar, 2019, p. 69 (ill.)
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pencil
Portrait of a girl with a rose and a red coral necklace (c. 1631)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
David Finsonius (Veere 1597- Bergen op Zoom 1646/1648)
Portrait of a girl with a rose and a red coral necklace
With traces of the artist’s signature and annotated AETATIS S.V. 2 1⁄2 Ao 1631
Oil on panel, H. 104.5 x 79.5 cm
Provenance:
Purchased by Jonkheer Helenus Marius Speelman (1857-1909), Kasteel de Wittenburg; thence by
descent
The work shows a strong resemblance to a portrait by Finsonius in the North Brabant Museum. This
signed and dated "Girl with Basket and Cherries" (Inv. 15529), was painted just a year later, in 1632.
Not only are the paintings remarkably similar in overall size and format, in painting style, and in the
positioning of the girls in full length in their white lace dresses. They are also connected by the
iconographic scheme of the respective coral necklaces, each with a gold memorial medal hanging
from it. Although they are of course individuals, the faces are very similar in their depictions of
features such as eyes, nose, and lips. This points to the same technique applied by the same painter.
Finally, the handwriting is almost the same on the works by Finsonius known so far.
About the painter, David Finson named 'Finsonius' (related to the better-known Louis Finson...
Category
17th Century Dutch School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Chinese Man
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Lazlo Tatz (Hungary 1888 - Philippines 1951)
Portrait of a Chinese man
Oil on canvas, H. 50 x W. 44.5 cm
Tatz studied in Budapest and Paris, and in 1931 h...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919
By Marius Bauer
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Marius Bauer (1867-1932)
‘Devotie in de Woestijn’ (Devotion in the Dessert near the pyramids of Gizeh, circa 1919)
Signed lower right and titled lower left
Watercolour on paper, H...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pencil
Scroll painting of the American ship commanded by Commodore Matthew Perry
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Attributed to Ukita Ikkei (1795-1859)
Hanging scroll painting of the American ship commanded by Commodore Matthew Perry in Uraga Bay, annotate...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink
1854 Funeral of R. Williams at Gyokusen-ji Temple, Shimoda, with Commodore Perry
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Wilhelm Heine (Dresden 30 January 1827-Löbnitz 5 October 1885)
‘Funeral of Robert Williams in the cemetery of the Temple Gyokusen-ji at Shimoda in April 1854’
With a sticker on the reverse of the frame by Coupil & Co. 1855
Watercolour on paper, H. 57 x W. 92 cm
Depicted is the Bay of Shimoda with seven American ships including the two paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna. On the Gyokus- en-ji temple grounds on the right is the coffin in the middle with the remains of US marine Robert Williams, ready to be lowered into the grave. Looking on from the left are the Buddhist monks and Japanese officials who joined the first Christian funeral on Japanese soil. Around the grave are US marines, Commodore Perry...
Category
Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
The King's Camelopard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Frederick de Brocktorff (1775–1850)
‘Camelopard – a present from the Pacha of Egypt to the King – at Malta on its way to England’
Signed and dated C.F. de Brocktorff. / 1827. lower right, inscribed as titled in the painted margins lower centre. Pencil and watercolour heightened with gold paint and gum arabic on paper, 36.8 x 27.9 cm
A gift so majestic, it made kings blush, and a gift so grand, it would startle Europe into a craze. Pasha Muhammad Ali of Egypt (1805-1848) did it in 1827: he sent to Europe three magical spotted, horned creatures, each with a neck reaching the skies and legs as long as a house is high. One giraffe to King Charles X of France, one to Francis I of Austria and the most fabled one to King George IV of England. A curious sight for Europeans, who had not seen such a beast since the Medici giraffe in 1487.
Few animals created more of a stir in Europe than these royal...
Category
1820s Naturalistic Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Male and female portrait, both in silk kimono, possibly textile dealers
By Christoffel Lubieniecki
Located in Amsterdam, NL
CHRISTOFFEL LUBIENIECKI (1659-1729)
Pair of portraits of a gentleman and a lady, both in silk kimono, before a country house (circa 1680)
Indistinctly signed “C.......” on a box under the man’s left hand
Oil on canvas, 79.5 x 67 cm each
Both sitters are portrayed wearing a silk “Japanese” coat. During the second half of the seventeenth the Japanese silk coat, an adapted Japanese kimono, became a real vogue in the Dutch elite. The exclusive Dutch trade contacts with Japan can explain the popularity of the kimono-style silk coats in the Netherlands. Everybody who could afford one, dressed in such a fashionable and comfortable coat and, like the present sitters, some proud owners had themselves portrayed in a “Japanese” coat often together with an oriental carpet to underline their standing and international connections. These portraits are the work of the Polish-born portraitist Christoffel Lubieniecki (also known as Lubienitski, Lubinitski or Lubiniecki)
Lubieniecki was first trained in Hamburg under Julian Stuhr and after 1675 in Amsterdam under Adriaen Backer and Gerard de Lairesse. He specialized in landscapes, generally of an Italianate character, and in portraits. The loving execution of these contented burghers, enjoying the garden vistas of their country house, places him alongside Amsterdam portraitists such as Constantijn Netscher and Michiel van Musscher...
Category
1680s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Animal painting of a 'Tamanuâguacû (Ant-eater)' late 17th/18th century, Brazil
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688)
Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater)
On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm
The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German.
Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache
Village of Iseh, Bali (1948)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
View of the Village of Iseh, painted from the house of Theo
Signed and dated 48 Theo Meier lower left
Oil on canvas, 68.5 x 50 cm
In original frame carved by the artist.
Note:
Theo Meier arrived in Bali in 1936 with the intention of going on to Tahiti where he had been before. However Bali turned out to be the paradise he had been searching for in his dreams and he had no desire any more to move elsewhere. Bali at that time was still a very traditional place where society lived according to an acient religious system and in a luscious tropical setting the modern world was ignored. Here he met Walter Spies...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Rosewood, Oil
European Artist - Indonesian Portraits of Mas Marco Kartodikromo, 1890-1932
Located in Amsterdam, NL
European artist (early 20th century)
Two study portraits of Mas MarCo Kartodikromo (1890-1932)
One inscribed Kartodikromo lower right
Framed in ebonized frame with white mount.
Pe...
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
“A Balinese woman with offerings” (1936)
By Theo Meier
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Theo Meier (1908-1982)
“A Balinese woman with offerings”
Signed, dated '36 and annotated Mankok (the name of the sitter) lower left
Sanguine on paper, measures: 57 x 41.5 cm
In a handmade and hand painted frame with address: Max Kno¨ll, Herberggasse 4/1, Basel.
Provenance:
Private collection, Basel (acquired directly from the artist)
Private collection, London
Note:
Theo Meier was born in Basel, where he attended art school and became a successful portrait painter. However, after visiting an exhibition in Basel of Tahitian paintings by Paul Gaugin, he decided to follow in Gaugin’s footsteps and go to the South Pacific. To finance his voyage, he founded a club in which every member pledged a monthly sum in return of which they could choose one of Meier’s paintings upon his return.
In 1932, at the age of 24, he embarked on his voyage to the South Sea. In Tahiti, he certainly discovered the beauty of the colours of the tropical world but the simplicity of the inhabitants, he had seen in Gaugin’s paintings turned out to be more in the artist’s fantasy than in reality. He returned to Basel but in 1935 again was on his way to the South Sea. In 1936 he arrived in Bali, planning to stay there for two or three weeks, but thirty years later he was still there. In Bali “a delirium laid hold of me which even today has not subsided”, he was to write much later. The present drawing was made during his first “delirius” year in Bali. In Bali, he settled and found inspiration and friendship with other artists including Walter Spies...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Crayon
Wobbly bridge, Tabanan, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Wobbly bridge, Tabanan, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials bottom right and dated, bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 22 x 26.3 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
Willem Otto Wi...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Beach of Kusambe, Bali 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four outrigger proa’s on the beach of Kusambe, Bali, 1937
Signed with initials, dated and described with location bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 29.7 x 35 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art and objects for their collections, Nieuwenkamp immediately started to purchase and order a wide range of ethnographic art and objects from local artists and craftsmen.
Through his drawings and books, he gave an excellent impression of Balinese art and culture at that time. Since 1854 Northern Bali was under Dutch...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Pencil
Statue of Vishnu Garuda, Bali, 1904
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Statue of Vishnu Garuda, Bali, 1904
Signed with initials
Pencil and ink on paper, 21.4 x 21.3 cm
Literature:
Bruce W. Carpenter, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp. First European Artist in Bali,...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil, India Ink
Four Balinese, Bali (1910)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Four Balinese, 1910
Signed and dated bottom left
Pencil and ink on paper, 15.6 x 23 cm
In ebonized frame with white mount.
Literature:
W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Zwerftochten op Bali, Amsterdam, 1910, p. 36
WILLEM OTTO WIJNAND NIEUWENKAMP
(1874-1950)
Nieuwenkamp was born on July 27th 1874 in Amsterdam. His father owned sailing ships sailing to Indonesia and hearing the stories of the returning captains evoked in the young Nieuwenkamp an obsession for distant lands and adventure. After a failed attempt by his father to have his son make a career in his business, Nieuwenkamp attended the Academy for Decorative Art in Amsterdam. However, he left within one year to go his own way.
He was an autodidact and a great experimenter with new techniques, particularly in the art of etching. Nieuwenkamp was a very focused man with the discipline of a scientist tempered by the sensitivity of an artist, a lust for adventure, a natural appreciation for ethnic arts and an enormous ambition to tread new paths.
In 1898 he visited Indonesia for the first time and on his second visit in 1903-1904 he went on to Bali and became the first foreign artist to love Bali and the Balinese with a passion. Having secured agreements with several museums in the Netherlands to obtain Balinese art...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Stone Statue, Madura, India, 1914
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stone statue in the temple at Madura, India, 1914
Signed with initials and dated, bottom left
Pencil on paper, 25.4 x 16.7 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O.J. ...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Stone Statue, Madura, India, 1914
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stone statue in the temple at Madura, India, 1914
Signed with initials top right
Pencil on paper, 21.2 x 16.7 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp,B...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914
Signed with initials and dated bottom right
Black chalk on paper, 45.5 x 53 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbro...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Incoming Rain, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Incoming rain, Den Pasar, Bali 1937
Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom right
Black chalk and ink on paper, 42 by 46 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W.O...
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Portrait of artist Ida Bagoes Ketut Diding, Bali, 1937
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Ida Bagoes Ketut Diding, Artist on bali 1937
Signed with initials, dated and titled, bottom centre
Black chalk on paper, 29 x 31 cm
Literature:
Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbroek, W....
Category
1930s Art Nouveau Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Young boy at Loemboeng, 1918
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Young boy at Loemboeng, 1918
Signed with initials and dated, bottom right
Black chalk on paper, 25.7 x 10 cm
Literature:
W.O.J. Nieuwenkamp, Zwerftochten door Timor en Onderhoori...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Evening prayers by fishermen under the high coast of Celebes
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894)
“Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...
Category
19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Chinese Company playing Droughts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
ERWIN BINDEWALD (1897-1950)
Two men playing draughts, a girl with the red book standing behind them
Signed and dated E. Bindewald d.j., 27
Oil on canvas, 140.5 x 90.5 cm
In black and gilt gesso frame.
Note:
Bindewald was born in Charlottenburg. He moved to Berlin in 1914 where he studied till 1924 at the Berliner Kunst Akademie. Bindewald travelled in Europe, but mainly stayed in Germany and certainly never was in China. This painting was made in Europe, presumably in the China Town of Berlin. Bindewald received several commisions in Germany from factory owners who wanted their factories painted inside, usually with workers, as well as outside. In the present painting the sitter on the right seems to be a man with a Manchurian background, wearing the brown coat reserved for the highest aristocracy in China.
In China the black sleeve-ends completely cover the hands, indicating that the high aristocracy does not have to do any manuel labour. This man clearly is not a factory worker but he possibly is the (co)- owner of the factory in the background and as such might need his hands to do at least some writing. The man on the left in the modern Western suit...
Category
1920s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-portrait in Indonesian Landscape
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Abraham Johannes Romswinckel (1810-1856)
Self-portrait in Indonesian landscape
Inscribed Abr. Joh. Romswinckel, geb. Batavia 17 Oct. 1810, overl...
Category
1820s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A pair of Indonesian Landscapes, by Charles Legrain (19th century)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Charles Legrain, (19th century)
Two Javanese landscapes
Both signed Legrain Ch. and one dated 1857
Both oil on canvas, size: 95 x 114 cm
In rich gilt-gesso frame.
(2x).
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Geisha
By Roland Strasser
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Roland Strasser (1895-1974)
"Japanese Geisha"
Signed lower right
Oil and gold leaf on canvas, measures: 76 x 46 cm
In fine white-wash wood frame.
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Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Located in Amsterdam, NL
GOVERT VAN EMMERIK (1808-1882)
View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam
Signed and dated 1856
Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm
In large gilt...
Category
19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
