Aronson Antiquairs

Pair of blue and white early flower vases

Delft, circa 1680
Beschrijving

Each painted around the lower half of the slightly exaggerated pear-shaped body with a continuous chinoiserie landscape scene of a bird flying and another bird seated near rock work amidst flowering shrubbery below a flowering vine border interrupted on the shoulder by eight spouts, each decorated with a blossom and foliate scrolls and surrounding a central spout flowering scroll motifs, the flaring foot with a border of blossoms and foliate scrolls.

Plateelbakkerij
De Metaale Pot
Productieplaats
Delft
Merk
LC for Lambertus Cleffius, the owner of De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory from 1679 to 1691
Datering
circa 1680
Materiaal/techniek
tin-glazed earthenware
Afmetingen
Heights: 20.1 cm. (7.9 in.)
Collection
inventarisnummer
D1905