Lot 50. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. An early Dutch Chinoiserie theatrical tile picture, circa 1620-1640, Haarlem or Delft; 13 cm x 13 cm each. Price Realised USD 20,320 (Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

In the Chinoiserie taste, painted in blue, green and ochre with a grotesque European buffoon (zot), flanked by a banner with a cross, approaching a slender lady (lange Lijs) holding a flower-filled basket, both in front of a fence, a host of onlookers beyond, and the starry sky and moon above, two large flower-filled vases in the foreground, the sides with what appear to be the edges of green-striped armorial shields.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Chistie's, Amsterdam, 26 September 2001, lot 498.

Literature: Dr. P. Biesboer, Nederlandse Majolica 1550-1650, Amsterdam 1997, p. 100, ill. 117.

Note: Dr. Pieter Biesboer dates this tile picture 1620-1640 and states that this is a very early and unusual example of chinoiserie. The gentleman is described as a dancing buffoon (Zot) and the flowering vases are related to Haarlem tiles from circa 1630.

The Dutch and the Portuguese were long time opponents in their trade contacts with China. This tile picture could be seen as a caricatural Dutch propaganda statement directed against the Portuguese (the "buffoon" in the image) trying to lure the Chinese into their sphere of influence.

Lot 66. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white ribbed vases and covers, 18th century, Blue 17 to the vases and one cover; 66 cm high. Price Realised USD 19,050 (Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Each octagonal vase painted with flower-filled urns above elaborate lappets of scrolling foliage, the tall domed covers decorated en suite, their finials as Buddhist lions, each with one paw on a globe.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 25 September 2001, lot 45.

Lot 36. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A very large Dutch Delft blue and white Chinoiserie charger, circa 1660-1680, attributed to Wouter or Samuel Van Eenhoorn At De Grieksche; 54 cm diameter. Price Realised USD 8,255 (Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Inspired by Chinese porcelain of the Transitional period, the center with a triple-line medallion painted with two court figures in garden, their attendant holding a large umbrella, surrounded by lotus-leaf lappets or Lambrequins enclosing scrolls and flowers, the wide border with four pointed panels with scenes depicting figures at various pursuits and one with a European trader, alternating blue ground scale motifs and scrolls reserved with flowers, with blue line rim

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 6 October 2004, lot 8.

Lot 37. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A large Dutch Delft blue and white bottle vase, Late 17th century, blue SVE mark for Samuel Van Eenhoorn at De Grieksche A, painted 24; 53.6 cm high. Price Realised USD 8,255 (Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

In the Chinoiserie taste, the neck with a lappet band enclosing flowers, the body finely painted with a continuous view of figures strolling or seated in gardens, the lower body with stiff-leaf tips

Provenance: Acquired from European Ceramics Consultancy (Lucy de Blaay), Netherlands, May 2010.

Lot 38. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch ‘Delft noir’ rectangular Chinoiserie teacaddy and a silver cover, first quarter 18th century, marked in yellow A:K above e or 2, most probably for Pieter Adriaenszoon Kocks at De Grieksche A, the silver cover of later date; 10.1 cm high, the ceramic. Price Realised USD 8,255 (Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

In the Chinoiserie taste, the black-ground body painted front and back in blue, red, green, yellow and white with an oval landscape medallion of either a landscape or figure in a garden, the sides with birds perched on flowering branches issuing from blue rockwork.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 30 May 2001, lot 452.

Lot 56. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft doré cruet set, first quarter 18th century, iron-red APK monogram marks for Pieter Adriaensz Kocks at De Grieksche A; 17.8 cm wide. Price Realised USD 6,096 (Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Each piece with a stag leaping among large Imari style blooms, comprising two jugs and covers, one labeled 'A' and the other 'O', and a stand with twisting speckled handle.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 8 April 2004, lot 20.

Lot 62. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white Armorial barber's bowl (scheerbekken), circa 1700, attributed to De Witte Starre; 30.5 cm diameter. Price Realised USD 6,096 (Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

The deep circular bowl depicting the interior of a barber shop with an aristocratic couple, she wearing a Fontange headdress and holding a fan, a barber holding a barber's bowl to the neck of a customer behind them, upon a chequered pavement, within a lappet frame, the wide flaring border surmounted with a cartouche depicting a coat-of-arms flanked by helmeted foliate mantling, the sides with two cartouches depicting scenes related to the herring and eel fishery, flanked by Vanitas trophies, depicting an hour glass and a skull etc., and further with barber shop paraphernalia, including a barber's bowl inscribed Scheert wat saght.

Provenance: Mak van Waay auctions, Amsterdam, No 132, February 1959, no. 1754a.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26 September 2001, lot 506

Literature: J. de Kleyn, Aardewerken scheerbekkens met een boodschap die telt, Antiek 23, March 1989, no. 8, p. 448, ill. 1.

Note: See D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, München, 1984, p. 98-99 for a discussion about objects with trophies and 'Fontange' ladies. The headdress was worn by Marie de Fontange, mistress to King Louis XIV. It went out of fashion at the French court in 1713, but the trend continued in Holland.

Lot 64. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A large Dutch Delft blue and white rectangular plaque, 18th century; 36.8 cm high, 41.2 cm long. Price Realised USD 6,096 (Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Finely painted in the style of Nicolaes Berchem with a maiden, a baby on her back, encountering a recumbent shepherd, further pastoral figures and animals in the distance, within an integral yellow border and black-glazed ‘frame’.

Lot 40. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A silver-mounted Dutch Delft blue and white ewer, circa 1680-1690, blue painted TH mark, the silver mounts circa 1700, probably matched later; 10.1 cm high, the ceramic. Price Realised USD 3,556 (Estimate USD 4,000 - USD 6,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

In the Chinoiserie taste, the oviform body painted to the sides with two dignitaries seated among in gardens, the front with a Laub und Bandelwerk escutcheon inscribed with potter's craft marks with imbricated numerals and lettering, the neck and handle with foliate motifs, the heart-shaped terraced silver cover incised I H S, connected with a shaped thumbpiece to the handle.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 2 May 2006, lot 36.

Lot 48. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white dated Armorial dish, dated 1707; 26 cm diameter. Price Realised USD 1,905 (Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

With the elaborate crested coat-of-arms of Daniel van Alckmade, above a banner inscribed daniel van alckmade 1707, surrounded by the inscription de starre ligte van de hemel op der aerden de spooren vande man verweckt de loop der paerden 1707 (the stars from heaven shine on the traces of the man caused by the galloping horses), the border with a band of scrolling foliage.

Provenance: Collection E. Delaunoy, Amsterdam.
Collection G. Klatte, Hilversum.
Collection E.A. Klatte, Lausanne.
Treasures from a Hannover Cottage; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26-27 June 2007, lot 2.

Exhibited: Tentoonstelling, Prinsenhof, Delft, 21 June-10 August 1958, no. 278.

Lot 68. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white twenty-four tile panel, circa 1620-1650; 13 cm square, each tile; 78.6 cm. x 52 cm, the panel, excluding the speckled gilt wooden frame. Price Realised USD 1,905 (Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

With figures at various pursuits including a hat seller, a cooper making barrels, a man loading a stove, a man sewing, figures fishing and a man hunting, all with fretwork surrounds.

Provenance: The Collection of J.C. Bruigom; Christie's, Amsterdam, 23 November 1999, lot 116

Lot 67. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. Two Dutch tin-glazed earthenware sixteen-tile panels, first half 17th century; 13.2 cm, each tile; 52.6 cm. x 52.6 cm each panel. Price Realised USD 1,651 (Estimate USD 2,000 - USD 3,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Each painted in blue, green and ochre, one with three stylized flowers in two-handled gadrooned vases, quarter rosette corners; the other with four sets of four tiles forming quatrefoil panels enclosing orange pomegranates, alternate with stylized blue and white foliate panels.

Provenance: Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 30 October 2001, lot 64 (the panel with vases).
Colletion Van Achterbergh, The Netherlands (the panel with pomegranates).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 10 December 1997, lot 293 (the panel with pomegranates).

Lot 49. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white dated Armorial dish, dated 1727, Blue AR mark; 22.2 cm diameter. Price Realised USD 1,524 (Estimate USD 2,500 - USD 3,500). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Painted in blue and yellow with the crowned elaborate coat-of-arms of Harderwijk, flanked by two lion supporters, above a banner inscribed ANNO. HARDE:RWYK: 1727., the border with foliate motifs.

Provenance: Collection G. Klatte, Hilversum.
Collection E.A. Klatte, Lausanne.
Treasures from a Hanover Cottage; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26-27 July 2007, lot 4

Exhibited: Tentoonstelling, Prinsenhof, Delft, 21 June-10 August 1958, no. 267.

Lot 59. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. Two pairs of Dutch Delft dore polychrome 'Hana Kago' dishes, first quarter 18th century, iron-red APK mark for Pieter Kocks at De Grieksche; 34 cm diameter, the larger pair. Price Realised USD 635 (Estimate USD 2,000 - USD 3,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Each painted in the Imari taste with a central flower-filled basket (hanakago) framed by shaped foliate lappets with gilt highlights; comprising a large pair of chargers and small pair of plates.

Note: For a similar small plate in the Lavino Collection at the Kunstmuseum den Haag, see object nos. 1059853 and 1059855, and the single plate in the Art Institute of Chicago, reference no. 1984.894.

Lot 43. The Peter Van Slyke Collection. A Dutch Delft blue and white brush back (borstelrug), circa 1730; 15.9 cm long10 cm wide. Price Realised USD 381 (Estimate USD 1,500 - USD 2,000). © Christie's Images Ltd 2025
 

Finely painted with a large baroque garden vase filled with an elaborate bouquet above a winged putto mask, the blue-ground border reserved with scrolling foliage, set in to an ebonized wood base.

Provenance: The Collection of the Late Mrs Doodeheefver-Toonen; Christie's, Amsterdam, 1 July 2004, lot 623.

Christie's. Collections: Including Property from the Estate of Stephen Newman and the Collection of Peter Van Slyke, Part II, New York, 7-21 October 2025