A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white flower pyramids,...
in four square section tiers, the uppermost surmounted by a bulb vase, the waisted tiers with a spout at each corner issuing from a lion mask, painted with putti and winged angel masks, the lowest tier supported on scroll feet alternating with busts of men in armour, upon the square base, painted on each side with a classical figure, emblematic of the Seasons with a satyr holding a cornucopia at each corner, on four square bun feet, LVE mark in blue for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, owner of De Metaale Pot (the Metal Pot) factory from 1691 to 1724, to base of one
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Height 55 cm; 21 ⅝ in.
Catalogue Note:
A pair of the same square, four-tier form, featuring mask spouts at each corner, busts of men in armour, and marked 'LV' for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, was preserved in the collections at Ashdown House, commissioned in 1662 by William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, as a Dutch-style hunting lodge and refuge for his lifelong love, Elizabeth Stuart, the exiled 'Winter Queen' of Bohemia, before being sold at the auction entitled Ashdown House: The Winter Queen And The Earl Of Craven, at Sotheby's, London, 27 October 2010, lot 90.
Provenance:
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. 182, fig. 1.
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in four square section tiers, the uppermost surmounted by a bulb vase, the waisted tiers with a spout at each corner issuing from a lion mask, painted with putti and winged angel masks, the lowest tier supported on scroll feet alternating with busts of men in armour, upon the square base, painted on each side with a classical figure, emblematic of the Seasons with a satyr holding a cornucopia at each corner, on four square bun feet, LVE mark in blue for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, owner of De Metaale Pot (the Metal Pot) factory from 1691 to 1724, to base of one
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Height 55 cm; 21 ⅝ in.
Catalogue Note:
A pair of the same square, four-tier form, featuring mask spouts at each corner, busts of men in armour, and marked 'LV' for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, was preserved in the collections at Ashdown House, commissioned in 1662 by William Craven, 1st Earl of Craven, as a Dutch-style hunting lodge and refuge for his lifelong love, Elizabeth Stuart, the exiled 'Winter Queen' of Bohemia, before being sold at the auction entitled Ashdown House: The Winter Queen And The Earl Of Craven, at Sotheby's, London, 27 October 2010, lot 90.
Provenance:
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. 182, fig. 1.
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