THREE RARE DUTCH-DECORATED 'WONDER OF ZAANDAM' PIECES, QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY

THREE RARE DUTCH-DECORATED 'WONDER OF ZAANDAM' PIECES
QIANLONG PERIOD, MID-LATE 18TH CENTURY
Decorated with 'The Bull's Cruelty', after the Dutch painting, depicting a farmer and his wife attacked by a bull, the wife thrown up in the air giving premature birth to a baby which falls on the ground together with her shoes, a boy flying a kite on the right, comprising a sgraffito-ground plate and a tea bowl and saucer inscribed in black paint '29 Augustus 1647'
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diameter, the plate

Provenance
Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1993, lot 289 (the tea bowl and saucer)
Christie's, Amsterdam, 13 May 1997, lot 154 (the plate)

Pre-Lot Text
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT A. LANDAU COLLECTION