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CIRCA 1750
Details
A Dutch-engraved light baluster table-bell
Circa 1750
The waisted upper bowl with an accouchement scene depicting a seated midwife pulling the rope of a cradle with a baby, beside a table laid with two goblets and three dishes filled with sweetmeats and a new mother holding a baby lying in a canopied bed surmounted by an eagle allegorical of God's Love or Youth and Strength, on a tiled floor, below the inscription DE CRAAMVROU EN T. KINTIE (The new mother and her baby), joined by a knopped section enclosing a tear, to the lower inverted bell-shaped bowl applied with a fixed ring suspending a clapper
25 cm. (9 7/8 in) high
Circa 1750
The waisted upper bowl with an accouchement scene depicting a seated midwife pulling the rope of a cradle with a baby, beside a table laid with two goblets and three dishes filled with sweetmeats and a new mother holding a baby lying in a canopied bed surmounted by an eagle allegorical of God's Love or Youth and Strength, on a tiled floor, below the inscription DE CRAAMVROU EN T. KINTIE (The new mother and her baby), joined by a knopped section enclosing a tear, to the lower inverted bell-shaped bowl applied with a fixed ring suspending a clapper
25 cm. (9 7/8 in) high
Provenance
With Kunsthandel J. Fijnaut, Amsterdam, 1987, acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-40).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. H-40).
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