1620-1640

Details

A Netherlands maiolica butter dish
1620-1640
Painted to the centre in blue, green and orange with a single tulip, pierced with a contemporary metal pin, the border in blue with a band of diaperwork and obliquely hatched motifs to the rim (restored)
25.5 cm. diam.
See illustration

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Lot Essay

For another butter dish see P. Biesboer, Nederlandse Majolica 1550-1650, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 149, ill. 176.

Butter was heaped up in cylinders as can be seen on still lifes by Pieter Claesz.

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