Pair of massive cashmere palette flower vases

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Each with a flattened heart-shaped body painted on the front with flowering shrubbery growing around a manganese and blue pierced rock beneath a butterfly and an exotic bird in pursuit of a large dragonfly, the outset serpentine bracket above with three foliate-patterned lappets alternating with ruyi-head and scroll devices on the front and a flowered blue-ground top issuing three octagonal spouts decorated with blossoms and scrolls, the shoulder behind with a foliate-patterned blue-ground top issuing five larger flaring octagonal spouts similarly decorated, the back of each body painted with three birds perched on flowering peony and prunus branches above pierced rocks, the sides affixed with open-mouthed dragon handles forming additional spouts, and the domed rectangular foot with peony branches and foliate-patterned lappets between a border of overlapping leaves on the knopped ankle and a scroll band around the footrim.

Afmetingen
Heights: 50 cm. (19.7 in.)
Lengths: 44 and 44.7 cm. (17.3 and 17.6 in.)
Code
D1228
Collectie
Aronson Antiquairs
Datering
circa 1710
Herkomst
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kahn-Sriber, Monaco;
The collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edmond J. Safra, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Plateelbakkerij
Attributed to Lambertus van Eenhoorn, the owner of De Metaale Pot factory from 1691 to 1721
Productieplaats
Delft
Unieke code
Aronson Delftware D1228