A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME SQUARE PLAQUES

CIRCA 1750

Details

A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME SQUARE PLAQUES
Circa 1750
Each with chamfered corners, the center painted with a vase of flowers flanked by baskets of flowers, each atop the head of a winged putto or satyr rising from a rocaille trellis bracket, the edge moulded with rocaille scrolls, pierced in two places near the center top
11in. (29.2cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

With Morpurgo, Amsterdam

Lot Essay

Cf. Jacob Stodel, The Splendour of Dutch Delftware, Exhibition Catalogue, London, 1993, no. 54; also The Collection of Thomas Mellon Evans, Christie's New York, 18 June 1998, lot 230 for examples of equally richly painted plaques of flower still-lives but without the elaborately moulded rocaille scrolls framing the present examples.