Chinese porcelain tea bowl and saucer decorated with the portrait of “JOANNES COCCEIUSS, Qianlong.

Very rare Chinese export porcelain tea bowl and saucer decorated en grisaille and gilt with a portrait and the inscription “JOANNES COCCEIUSS. THEOLOGIAE PROFESSOR. IN ACADEMIA LUGDUNENFI”, c.1740, Qianlong reign, Qing dynasty, tea bowl: h. 4 cm, 1 ½ in; d. saucer: 11,7 cm, 4¼ in. 6-17103

Illustrated: Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, by A. Varela Santos, cat. 72 •

Johannes Cocceius (or Coccejus) (1603-1669), was a Dutch theologian born at Bremen. After studying at Hamburg and the University of Franeker, where Sixtinus Amama was one of his teachers, he became in 1630 professor of biblical philology at the Gymnasium in his native town. In 1636 he was transferred to Franeker, where he held the chair of Hebrew, and from 1643 the chair of theology also, until 1650, when he succeeded the elder Friedrich Spanheim as professor of theology at the University of Leiden .

His major work was his Lexicon et commentarius sermonis hebraici et chaldaici (Leiden, 1669), which has been frequently republished. His theology is fully expounded in his Summa Doctrinae de Foedere et Testamento Dei (1648).

非常罕見的中國外銷墨彩描金茶盌及茶托，飾以一幅畫像和“JOANNES COCCEIUSS. THEOLOGIAE PROFESSOR. IN ACADEMIA LUGDUNENFI” 字樣，約1740年，清乾隆，茶盌高4釐米，1½英吋； 茶托直徑11.7釐米，4¼英吋。

圖示：《中國陶瓷及工藝精品》，作者阿.瓦瑞拉.山度士，編號 72。

• Johannes Cocceius （或Coccejus）（1603-1669）是出生于不萊梅的荷蘭神學家。他曾就讀于漢堡 和弗蘭納克大學，Sixtinus Amama是他的老師。學成之後，Johannes在1630年成為他家鄉 Gymnasium的一位聖經研究教授。1636年他遷至弗蘭納克并成為希伯來語系主席，從1643年開始擔任神學系主席，直到1650年他代替老Friedrich Spanheim成為萊頓大學的神學教授。

Johannes的主要著作有《Lexicon et commentarius sermonis hebraici et chaldaici》（1669年萊頓 出版），這篇作品多次再版。他的神學理論在他另一著作《Summa Doctrinae de Foedere et Testamento Dei》（1648年出版）中有詳細說明。