A SILVER-MOUNTED DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DATED BIBLICAL LARGE...
The body reserved with three oval panels, the central with Adam and Eve in Paradise, surrounded by animals including a camel, elephant and unicorn, one side panel with the Resurrection of Christ, the other with Cain and Abel, pyres in the background, the upper rim with four medallions enclosing St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke and St John writing the Gospels, all on a background of flowering vine
105⁄8 in. (27 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 October 2006, lot 249.
Lot Essay
See J.D. van Dam, 'Delfts uit de provincie', in Vormenuit Vuur, 1999/3-4, pp. 64-69 and ills. 81a-92.1-2 for related Aalmis Rotterdam Delftware objects.
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The body reserved with three oval panels, the central with Adam and Eve in Paradise, surrounded by animals including a camel, elephant and unicorn, one side panel with the Resurrection of Christ, the other with Cain and Abel, pyres in the background, the upper rim with four medallions enclosing St Matthew, St Mark, St Luke and St John writing the Gospels, all on a background of flowering vine
105⁄8 in. (27 cm.) high
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 3 October 2006, lot 249.
Lot Essay
See J.D. van Dam, 'Delfts uit de provincie', in Vormenuit Vuur, 1999/3-4, pp. 64-69 and ills. 81a-92.1-2 for related Aalmis Rotterdam Delftware objects.
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