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
                  Aronson Antiquairs
              
    
    
                        Polychrome double-sphere money bank
            
  
  
      
      Delft, circa 1685
    
  
      
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        Beschrijving
        Plateelbakkerij
        Probably Het Moriaenshooft
                    Productieplaats
        Delft
                    Datering
        circa 1685
                    Materiaal/techniek
        tin-glazed earthenware
                    Afmetingen
        Height: 29.3 cm. (11.5 in.)
                    Collection
        
    inventarisnummer
        D1716