Formed in three sections: the largest comprising the tall baluster-form body, its eight baluster-shaped tulip nozzles decorated with ruyi-head and foliate motifs and rising from a floral-patterned blue-ground lappet borderabove two rows of petal-shaped panels painted alternately with vases of flowers and on the upper row flowering plants growing around a pierced rock, or on the bottom row floral sprays, some with perched birds, all above flowering vine, floral lappet, demi-ruyi-head and foliatescroll borders on the lower body, knopped ankle and bell-shaped domed base; the small circular mid section forming a ruyi-head- and petal-bordered receptacle and collar for the upper section, a smaller version of the tall vase below, similarly decorated with one row of five petal-shaped panels of flower-filled vases or floral sprays beneath five tulip nozzles issuing from a blue-ground floral lappet border and encircling a trumpet-shaped neck decorated with blossoms and foliate scrolls below an everted rim with a flowering vine border.
Aronson Antiquairs
Blue and white large flower vase
Delft, circa 1720
object
Beschrijving
Plateelbakkerij
Attributed to De Witte Ster (The White Star) Factory
Productieplaats
Delft
Datering
circa 1720
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Afmetingen
Height: 63.5 cm. (25 in.)
Collection
inventarisnummer
D9012