A DELFT DORE BUTTERTUB, COVER AND STAND, gilt, painted in colours, with encre de chine gallant and commercial scenes after early Meissen porcelain examples, with black-ground borders, the twohandled buttertub with red shell-shaped handles, with two gallant panels, the inside with a further gallant scene, the cover en suite with two panels, with crested finial, the shaped stand with a central commercial scene of gentlemen beside barrels surrounded by a border in relief, with further flowersprays, the black-ground border with shells and flowersprays (the cover restored), first half 18th Century
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A DELFT DORE BUTTERTUB, COVER AND STAND, gilt, painted in colours, with encre de chine gallant and commercial scenes after early Meissen porcelain examples, with black-ground borders, the twohandled buttertub with red shell-shaped handles, with two gallant panels, the inside with a further gallant scene, the cover en suite with two panels, with crested finial, the shaped stand with a central commercial scene of gentlemen beside barrels surrounded by a border in relief, with further flowersprays, the black-ground border with shells and flowersprays (the cover restored), first half 18th Century
the stand circa 23.5 cm wide (2)
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