A Dutch Delft blue and white oval flower vase, circa...

in three tiers composed of five parts, comprising, a deep oval bowl supported on a domed foot and affixed with phoenix handles painted with feathers, the flattened domed cover encircled with ten open-mouthed stag’s head spouts, the central well holding a second oval footed bowl with twin S-scroll handles, its cover with eight stag’s head spouts, the central well holding a globular vase with six stag’s head spouts around the shoulder encircling a central spout, each piece painted with panels of flowering oriental foliage alternating with rosettes between formal foliate and palmette borders, the covers with birds in flowering branches or flower sprays, AK mark in blue for Adrianus Kocx, owner of the De Grieksche A (the Greek A) factory from 1687 to 1701, to both bowls, the smaller bowl with incised 2

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Height 73.7 cm; 29 in.
Width 53 cm; 20 ⅞ in.

Provenance:
Almost certainly acquired by Lady Mary Mordaunt (1658/9-1705), Duchess of Norfolk, and 7th Baroness Mordaunt, who in 1700 married Sir John Germain, 1st Baronet (1650-1718), possibly for the King’s Dining Room, Drayton House, Lowick, Northamptonshire, thence to his appointed heir;

Lord George Germain, 1st Viscount Sackville (1716-1785), thence to his son;

Charles Sackville-Germain, 2nd Viscount Sackville of Drayton (1767-1843) and 5th Duke of Dorset; thence to his niece and sole heir;

Caroline Sackville (c. 1816-1908);

Thence by descent at Drayton House in the Stopford Sackville family;

With Duncan H. McLaren Ltd., London;

The collection of Simon Sainsbury, Woolbeding House, West Sussex, acquired from the above, 13 May 1991;

Simon Sainsbury The Creation of an English Arcadia, sold, Christie's, London, 18 June 2008, lot 40;

With, Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam, 2013.

Literature:
Marion S. van Aken-Fehmers, et al., Dutch Delftware, A History of a National Product, Vases with Spouts, Three Centuries of Splendour, Zwolle, 2007, Vol. IV, p. 16, pl. 5 (for the largest bowl and cover).

Christine Lahaussois, Delft - Faïence, Brussels, 2008, p. 103, fig. 6.