‘Black Delftware’ teapot and cover

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The pear-shaped body painted on either side in white, iron-red, blue, green and yellow with a flowering and budding prunus branch rising from a pierced rock, the short spout and loop handle with yellow scrollwork bands, and the cover with two budding prunus branches alternating with two small insects beneath the yellow- striped conical knop, the interior covered in a white glaze.

Afmetingen
Height: 7.5 cm. (3 in.)
Code
D1046
Collectie
Aronson Antiquairs
Datering
circa 1700
Herkomst
Collection of A. Vromen Jr, Doetinchem, sold at Christie’s Amsterdam, 24 October 1979, lot 2812
Joseph M. Morpurgo, Amsterdam, 1980
Collection Mr. Jan Visser (d. 1985), Heemstede, and thence by descent to an heir (until 2009)
Literatuur

De Jonge 1967, ill. 14; Boyazoglu, De Neuville 1980, p. 89, no. 108; Oude Kunst- en Antiekbeurs Delft, 1980, p. 138

Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Productieplaats
Delft