Each painted on two sides of the tapering square body with a Chinese man standing beside a lady seated beneath a balcony in which another lady is seated and holding a fan, and on the alternating sides with a Long Eliza figure standing before a garden fence and looking over her shoulder at a man seated beneath another seated figure at the open window of a pavilion, all beneath and above vignettes of a zotje (jumping boy), and surmounted by a teardrop-shaped finial painted with stiff leaves above a petal border repeated around the top of the ankle, the lower body robustly molded on each side with a scallop shell between scrolls against a blue ground reserved with scrolls and foliage, and the aring foot with a similar ground reserved on each side with a quatrefoil panel painted alternately with two zotjes by a garden fence or a lady seated before a pierced rock beneath a tree, and the footrim with a demi-ruyi-head border.
                  Aronson Antiquairs
              
    
    
                        Pair of blue and white Chinoiserie obelisks
            
  
  
      
      Delft, circa 1690
    
  
      
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        Beschrijving
        Plateelbakkerij
        De Grieksche A
                    Productieplaats
        Delft
                    Merk
        Each marked AK for Adrianus Kocx, the owner of De Grieksche A factory from 1686 to 1701
                    Datering
        circa 1690
                    Materiaal/techniek
        tin-glazed earthenware
                    Afmetingen
        Heights: 49.2 and 49.5 cm. (19.4 and 19.5 in.)
                    Collection
        
    inventarisnummer
        D1608