A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME HELMET SHAPED EWER, CIRCA 1710

Property from a Private Connecticut Collection
A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME HELMET SHAPED EWER, CIRCA 1710

of baroque helmet form with a high blue-ground flat-scroll handle, the molded fluted body painted in a 'cashmire' palette with formal foliate scroll bands reserving panels of flower sprigs.
height 8 ⅞ in.
22.5 cm

Condition Report:
Handle broken off at terminals and re-stuck, two restored hairline cracks at rim.

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Provenance:
Guest & Gray, London, 2005