Service chinois à thé et café, aux armoiries de Lorsbach...
Service chinois à thé et café, aux armoiries de Lorsbach et de Clercq, daté 1768
A Chinese armorial part export tea and coffee service with the Lorsbach and de Clercq arms, dated 1768
Each decorated with formal dart border in gilding, and large polychrome armorial above the inscription 'H. LORSBACH MDCCLXVIII.M.I.D.CLERCQ.', comprising: a larger teapot and cover and a slightly smaller teapot and cover, two tea caddies and covers on pierced scrollwork feet, a milk jug and cover (handle broken), three slop bowls, two smaller and one larger, two hexagonal dishes and an oblong hexagonal dish, eight teabowls, three coffee cups and twelve saucers, and a single small saucer, the largest teapot: 14cm (restoration and losses) (38)
Literature:
Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market (2007), no. 346
The coat of arms is that of Hendrik Lorsbach (d. 1789) and Marina Josina de Clercq (b. 1734, d.1811). Another tea caddy from this service is in the collection of the Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden.
Not much is known about the family. Hendrik Lorsbach is mentioned in 1762 as a clerk of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company, in Middleburg. He was promoted to bookkeeper in 1769 and probably married Marina Josina de Clercq the year before. It is likely that Hendrik Lorsbach was of German descent, as the surname relates to a small village in Hesse. He was mentioned a few more times in the 1770s and 80s, but probably died in 1789, as his financial affairs were taken over by Martinus Lorsbach that same year. His widow is recorded to have lived in the Sint Pieterstraat West Side in Middleburg in 1796 (Kroes 2007, p. 424).
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Service chinois à thé et café, aux armoiries de Lorsbach et de Clercq, daté 1768
A Chinese armorial part export tea and coffee service with the Lorsbach and de Clercq arms, dated 1768
Each decorated with formal dart border in gilding, and large polychrome armorial above the inscription 'H. LORSBACH MDCCLXVIII.M.I.D.CLERCQ.', comprising: a larger teapot and cover and a slightly smaller teapot and cover, two tea caddies and covers on pierced scrollwork feet, a milk jug and cover (handle broken), three slop bowls, two smaller and one larger, two hexagonal dishes and an oblong hexagonal dish, eight teabowls, three coffee cups and twelve saucers, and a single small saucer, the largest teapot: 14cm (restoration and losses) (38)
Literature:
Jochem Kroes, Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market (2007), no. 346
The coat of arms is that of Hendrik Lorsbach (d. 1789) and Marina Josina de Clercq (b. 1734, d.1811). Another tea caddy from this service is in the collection of the Museum Princessehof in Leeuwarden.
Not much is known about the family. Hendrik Lorsbach is mentioned in 1762 as a clerk of the VOC, the Dutch East India Company, in Middleburg. He was promoted to bookkeeper in 1769 and probably married Marina Josina de Clercq the year before. It is likely that Hendrik Lorsbach was of German descent, as the surname relates to a small village in Hesse. He was mentioned a few more times in the 1770s and 80s, but probably died in 1789, as his financial affairs were taken over by Martinus Lorsbach that same year. His widow is recorded to have lived in the Sint Pieterstraat West Side in Middleburg in 1796 (Kroes 2007, p. 424).
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