AN ENAMELLED CROCUS POT after a French faience original modelled as a commode of rectangular bombe shape, moulded and decorated in blue enamel, iron-red and gilt with drawers and handles, the sides with floral cartouches, the flat top with five circular apertures around a peony (fritted), 18th Century

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AN ENAMELLED CROCUS POT after a French faience original modelled as a commode of rectangular bombe shape, moulded and decorated in blue enamel, iron-red and gilt with drawers and handles, the sides with floral cartouches, the flat top with five circular apertures around a peony (fritted), 18th Century
20cm. wide

Lot Essay

'Such bulb pots were filled with water, and the bulbs rested on the holes with their roots in the water for nourishment' cf. Howard and Ayers, op. cit., p.572, pl.594

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