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2 2 /1 9 7 0 B a k k e
C a n to n 1 7 3 9 -4 0
E m a lje p å k o b b e r . H :3 ,8 , L :7 4 , B :4 6
N y tå r s d a g 1739 h a v d e s u p e r c a r g o H a n s C h r is tia n
Ø l g o d v æ re t til se lsk a b h o s F r e d e rik H o lm s te d o g
h a v d e v e d d e n le jlig h e d n o te r e t sig h a n s n o g e t
in d v ik le d e fa m ilie fo rh o ld .
H o lm s te d v a r e n v e lh a v e n d e m a n d o g d e r u d
o v e r m e d s tif te r a f o g d ir e k tø r fo r d e t i 1732 o p r e t
te d e K o n g e lig e D a n s k e A s ia tis k e C o m p a g n ie .
D a g e n e fte r - 2 /1 -1 7 3 9 - d r o g Ø lg o d a fste d p å
d e t g o d e sk ib S le sw ig o g a n k o m u d p å s o m m e r e n
til C a n to n , h v o r h a n b e s tilte m u s e e ts b a k k e s o m
g a v e til sin d ir e k tø r - d e n o v e rra k te s s o m m e r e n
1740.
H o lm s te d s d a tte r M e tte g ifte d e sig m e d s to r
k ø b m a n d e n C h r is te n L in tr u p - s id e n a d le t L in -
d e n c r o n e - o g i d e re s fa m ilie e r b a k k e n n e d a r v e t
in d til v o r e d a g e . L in tr u p h a v d e se lv tje n t sin f o r
m u e p å K in a - h a n d e le n , o g i D a v id s S a m lin g b e
fin d e r d e r sig f o r u d e n b a k k e n e t sp e jl a f C a n to n e -
m a lje , e t p a r sp e jle m e d g la s m a le ri s a m t d e le a f
h a n s s p ise ste l - a lt u d f ø r t i K in a o m k r in g 1740 o g
lig e le d e s n e d a r v e t i fa m ilie n .
M a n m å g å u d fra, a t d e n lid t p r im itiv e k o m p o
s itio n p å b a k k e n s fo rs id e e r k o n c ip e r e t a f Ø lg o d
se lv o g d e r e f te r n ø je e f te r g jo r t a f d e k in e s is k e m a
le re ; d e tte g æ ld e r i a lt fa ld in d s k r if te rn e , m e n s d e n
e le g a n te b lo m s te r g r e n p å b a g s id e n e r r e n t k in e
sisk .
22/1910 Tray
Canton 1739-40
Enamel on copper. H.3.8, L:74, W:46
On New Year’s Day 1739, supercargo Hans Christian
Olgod had been to a party given by Frederik Holmsted
and in the course of this had observed the somewhat
involved ramifications of his family.
Holmsted was a rich man and moreover co-founder
and managing director of the Royal Danish Asiatic
Company, which had been set up in 1732. The follow
ing day-2ndJanuary 1739-Olgod sailed away on the
good ship “Sleswig” and late that summer arrived at
Canton, where he ordered this tray as a gift for his
managing director. It was handed over in the summer of
1740.
Holmsted’s daughter Mette married a prosperous
merchant named Christen Lintrup (who was later raised
to the peerage as Lindencrone) and the tray has passed
down through the family until the present day. Lintrup
had himselfearned hisfortune by trade with China, and
apart from this tray the David Collection also possesses
a Canton enamel mirror, a couple of mirrors decorated
with glass-painting and a number of items from his din
ner service, all executed in China ca. 1740 and simi
larly handed down from generation to generation.
One may assume that the rather primitive composi
tion on the front of the tray was conceived by Olgod
himself and thereafter precisely copied by the Chinese
painters; this certainly applies to the inscriptions,
whereas the elegantflowering branch on the back is pure
Chinese.
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