Polychrome double-sphere money bank

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Painted in blue, olive green, yellow and red on the upper sphere with a fluttering insect above birds perched on flowering branches with leaves and large chrysanthemums growing from pierced rock work, pierced with a coin slot, and surmounted in a blue ground pear-shaped finial; the larger lower sphere (also) pierced with a coin slot and painted with a similar decoration of a bird and fluttering insect in flight near birds perched on flowering leafy branches with large chrysanthemums growing from rock work, around the ankle a band of demi-ruyi-heads and the domed circular foot with a wide band consisting of four large ruyi-heads alternated by stylized floral scrollwork.

Attributed to Jannetge Claesdr. van Straten, widow of Jacob Wemmersz. Hoppesteyn and the owner of Het Moriaenshooft factory from 1671 until 1686

Afmetingen
Height: 29.3 cm. (11.5 in.)
Code
D1716
Collectie
Aronson Antiquairs
Datering
circa 1685
Herkomst
Collection Nijstad, Lochem
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Plateelbakkerij
Probably Het Moriaenshooft
Productieplaats
Delft
Unieke code
Aronson Delftware D1716