A SET OF SIX DUTCH DELFT ‘PETIT FEU’ SWEETMEAT DISHES...
Each heart-shaped dish painted in bright enamels on a white ground with travelers and merchants in a European landscape centered by a tall tree, reserved within a purple and iron-red border of striated cartouches and foliate decoration, the underside with trailing iron-red and bright yellow flowering vines, gilt line rim
41⁄2 in. (11.4 cm.) long, each
Provenance
The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III (collection. no. 3106); Christie's, New York, 20-21 January 2004, lot 618.
Lot Essay
The present heart-shaped dishes are finely painted with the same views of travelers in landscapes or 'Kauffahrteiszenen' scenes found on Meissen porcelain of similar or slightly earlier date. Another set, painted with the identical scenes but with variant border decoration, formerly in the Loudon collection, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object nos. BK-NM-12400-416/421.
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Each heart-shaped dish painted in bright enamels on a white ground with travelers and merchants in a European landscape centered by a tall tree, reserved within a purple and iron-red border of striated cartouches and foliate decoration, the underside with trailing iron-red and bright yellow flowering vines, gilt line rim
41⁄2 in. (11.4 cm.) long, each
Provenance
The Collection of Benjamin F. Edwards III (collection. no. 3106); Christie's, New York, 20-21 January 2004, lot 618.
Lot Essay
The present heart-shaped dishes are finely painted with the same views of travelers in landscapes or 'Kauffahrteiszenen' scenes found on Meissen porcelain of similar or slightly earlier date. Another set, painted with the identical scenes but with variant border decoration, formerly in the Loudon collection, is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, object nos. BK-NM-12400-416/421.
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