a pair of loosdrecht vases
a pair of loosdrecht vases

CIRCA 1780, UNDERGLAZE BLUE M:OL MARK, ONE INCISED M:OL AND G5, THE OTHER WITH 5B

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a pair of loosdrecht vases
Circa 1780, underglaze blue M:OL mark, one incised M:OL and G5, the other with 5B
The flask-shaped bodies decorated in colours with scenes of fishermen around boats on the shore, and ships in the background, within gilt C-scrolls and rocaille in relief, surmounted by a rocaille cartouche, the reverses with trees, with gilt line rims
18cm. high (2)
Provenance
Collectie Van Heeckeren, Amsterdam.
Literature
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE!!!!!!
juni-september 1952, afb. 203.
Heukensfeldt Jansen, M.-A., Korte geschiedenis van het Hollandse Heukensfeldt Jansen, M.-A., Korte geschiedenis van het Hollandse porselein, mededelingenblad vrienden van de nederlandse ceramiek, no. 42, maart 1966, p. 10, no. 11.
Exhibition catalogue, Loosdrechts porselein 1774-1784, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 27/02-15/05-1988, Zwolle 1988, p. 251, no. 201.
Esti, J., De moeizame geschiedenis van het Hollands porselein, Kunst en Antiekjournaal, August 1998, p. 6.

Lot Essay

Nowadays this kind of vases are often called 'hunting flasks' (jachtflesjes) because of the shape. In the 18th Century however, they were called flower flasks. Apparently this model is typical of Loosdrecht and was not made at any other European manufactory in that period. The earliest examples had no moulded decoration.

Virtually similar examples were sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 6 June 1990, lot 300 (NLG 7,057.50).

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