Tea and coffee
Tea and coffee became popular in the Dutch Republic during Leeuwenhoek's lifetime. The ships brought back not only the leaves and beans. They also brought the cups, saucers, and pots to drink them with, often in the same chest where the leaves cushioned the delicate porcelain.
Totals
- 40 rinsing bowls
- 372 cups
- things for tea and coffee
- 58 cups
- 42 teapots
- 97 miscellaneous: milk pitchers, dolls, and salt and pepper containers
Rinsing bowls (all on p. ?? of the inventory):
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3 blue rinsing bowls (spoelkommen) 2 ditto 2 large blue bowls 3 large rinsing bowls 2 ditto 2 brown ditto 6 blue ditto with tops (lids) 2 blue rinsing bowls 2 colored small ditto 2 blue rinsing bowls |
2 ditto 1 octagonal small rinsing bowl 1 large colored rinsing bowl 2 blue rinsing bowl 2 ditto 1 ditto with a brown rim 2 porcelain rinsing bowls 2 smaller ditto A brown rinsing bowl Total bowls: 40 |
spoelkom - According to the Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal, a small bowl, usually earthenware, for rinsing cups. The 18th century tea service on the right (click to enlarge) has a spoelkom, the large bowl at the top of the image. It also has a teapot, a milk pitcher and a sugar bowl with tops, and eight cups with saucers. Note that the cups have no handles.
During the traditional Japanese tea ceremony, the host rinses the cups several times in this larger bowl.
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Things for tea and coffee
total: 372 cups
29 *
401
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12 pair brown tea things (theegoed) 12 pair ditto with Chinese, somewhat larger 6 pair blue tea things 12 1/2 pair brown coffee things (coffeegoed), 1 cup damaged 5 brown cups and 8 saucers 2 pair Japanese 2 pair enameled (geamalieerd,) various 6 ribbed saucers* (geribde bakjes), 1 damaged 3 saucers with gold rims 3 unpaired plates and 1 damaged cup 6 pair brown Japanese coffee things 6 pair brown coffee things 6 pair ditto smaller 15 pair blue porcelain tea things 6 blue cups and 6 saucers* 6 pair enameled, with green, 1 damaged saucer* 6 saucers* with the portrait of Leeuwenhoek 6 ditto* with the coat of arms of the same 12 white cups (koppen) 6 blue cups somewhat smaller |
24 1/2 pair blue octagonal 13 ribbed saucers and 12 colored cups 12 pair tea things, blue with gold 16 blue saucers and 15 cups, fishermen (vissertjes) 12 pair Japanese 12 pair tea things, blue and white 7 1/2 pair blue with fishermen 11 ribbed saucers and 12 colored cups 6 pair Japanese tea things with gold 6 pair ribbed, brown outsides 6 pair blue and brown 6 pair Japanese 6 1/2 pair blue and white with young roosters (haantjes) 18 pair with brown outsides 6 pair Japanese 10 pair blue and white 5 1/2 pair puppet things (poppegoed) 4 pair colored 6 large ribbed saucers and 6 cups 2 concave saucers* |
12 saucers and 10 blue cups 9 saucers and 4 cups ditto 14 colored saucers 6 pair brown 5 pair ditto 6 pair blue 4 pair ditto 12 blue saucers 8 saucers with little crabs (krabbetjes) 8 saucers and 5 cups blue 7 pair octagon 18 brown cups 6 saucers with roses (roosjes) 4 pair blue tea things 3 pair blue 3 unpaired concave saucers* blue 2 flat ditto, 2 ditto 2 ditto brown ribbed 2 brown ditto 4 saucers* various |
The pairs are one cup and one matching saucer. For the five items marked 1/2, there's no indication which half, the cup or the saucer, so I arbitrarily counted them as three cups and two saucers.
The references to gold probably refer to a gold rim around the cup or saucer.
schoteltjes and bakjes - I'm not sure what distinction the notaries were making here, so I am calling them all saucers but marking the bakjes with an asterisk. Because six had portraits of Leeuwenhoek and six his coat of arms, perhaps the bakjes were shallower or didn't have as much of an indentation for the cup?
vissertjes - it means little fishermen. Perhaps such figures decorated the saucers?
haantjes
poppegoed
krabbetjes
roosjes
Cups
Total: 58
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12 colored cups 4 cups with blue outsides 6 blue cups 5 large ditto 4 ditto 2 octagonal cups 3 small cups 2 ditto |
2 ditto 2 ditto 2 ditto 6 pair colored tea ? (theegoed) 6 pair blue and white 6 pair brown 6 trays and 4 cups blue 4 cups, 1 brown ditto |
Teapots
Total: 42
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2 brown Japanese teapots (trekpotten) 3 Japanese teapots with feet painted gold 2 ditto without feet 2 blue teapots, various 1 blue teapot A colored ditto 2 white teapots 2 square blue ditto 1 ditto six-sided 2 unpaired teapots, the one damaged 3 colored teapots enameled |
1 small test pot (proefpotje) 2 red teapots 5 ditto with silver chains 2 ditto without chains 2 red teapots with standing clasps 2 large round teapots 2 six-sided ditto 1 round ditto 1 small red six-sided ditto 1 teapot without top 2 red teapots |
Miscellaneous (inventory pages 110v and 111)
Total: 97
Milk pitchers
1 large Engelse milk kan?
2 ditto smaller
Dolls
3 alabaster images
6 little ducks (pulletjes): 6 ditto
12 ditto
41 little dolls of people and animals (mannetjes and beesjes)
6 earthen dolls of people (aarde mannetjes)
12 little ducks
17 little dolls of people and animals
Salt and pepper: 10
2 pepper boxes (peperbosjes)
2 salt shakers (vatjes)
6 porcelain speckled horns (gespikkelde hoorntjes)
