Lot Essay
For comparable examples see: M. Lavino, The Lavino Collection, Lokeren, 2001, pp. 139-141, and D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, Niederländische Fayence, München, 1984, pp. 68-69 and 227, ill. 124.
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1760-1780
Details
A Dutch Delft blue and white figural liquor barrel
1760-1780
Naturalistically modelled in relief as a seated lady wearing an elaborate star-studded dress, short cloak and flower-encrusted hat, her neck with an opening (to fill with fluid), the base moulded to the front with a shell surrounding an aperture upholding a small copper faucet with fish-shaped finial, the lower part with rocaille relief decoration surrounding a semi-circular opening (some old restorations to extremities and rims)
50.5 cm. high
See illustration
1760-1780
Naturalistically modelled in relief as a seated lady wearing an elaborate star-studded dress, short cloak and flower-encrusted hat, her neck with an opening (to fill with fluid), the base moulded to the front with a shell surrounding an aperture upholding a small copper faucet with fish-shaped finial, the lower part with rocaille relief decoration surrounding a semi-circular opening (some old restorations to extremities and rims)
50.5 cm. high
See illustration
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