A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE TWO-HANDLED CREAM-BOWL TWICE DATED...
The exterior finely painted with barrel making scenes to the front and brick makers to the reverse, above a wide floral band, flanked by strap handles painted with floral scrollwork and raised on three short feet, the interior painted with a large bird above the date 1717, the underside with painted 9/18 over the initials PVS / WVS and the date 1717
12 in. (30.4 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Van Nie Antiquairs, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands.
Acquired from European Ceramics Consultancy (Lucy de Blaay), Netherlands, December 2010.
Lot Essay
Another cream-bowl of this form but with a simple landscape to its exterior is in the collection of Sèvres, Manufacture et musée nationaux, inventory no. MNC19156. Also compare the ‘Tuitpot’ illustrated in M.S. Van Aken-Fehmers et. al., Delfts aardewerk, Geschiendenis van een national product, Zwolle, 1999, p. 242, no. 84 and the example in a private collection illustrated in in J. Boyazoglu and L. de Neuville, Les Faiences de Delft, Paris, 1980, no. 60.
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The exterior finely painted with barrel making scenes to the front and brick makers to the reverse, above a wide floral band, flanked by strap handles painted with floral scrollwork and raised on three short feet, the interior painted with a large bird above the date 1717, the underside with painted 9/18 over the initials PVS / WVS and the date 1717
12 in. (30.4 cm.) wide, overall
Provenance
Van Nie Antiquairs, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands.
Acquired from European Ceramics Consultancy (Lucy de Blaay), Netherlands, December 2010.
Lot Essay
Another cream-bowl of this form but with a simple landscape to its exterior is in the collection of Sèvres, Manufacture et musée nationaux, inventory no. MNC19156. Also compare the ‘Tuitpot’ illustrated in M.S. Van Aken-Fehmers et. al., Delfts aardewerk, Geschiendenis van een national product, Zwolle, 1999, p. 242, no. 84 and the example in a private collection illustrated in in J. Boyazoglu and L. de Neuville, Les Faiences de Delft, Paris, 1980, no. 60.
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