Lot Essay
Frans Claes (1860-1933) was the curator of the Steen and Vleeshuis
Museums, Antwerp.
Museums, Antwerp.
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CIRCA 1560
Details
A small Antwerp maiolica albarello
CIRCA 1560
Decorated in blue and orange with stylised foliage, the upper part with crossed lines
11 cm. high
CIRCA 1560
Decorated in blue and orange with stylised foliage, the upper part with crossed lines
11 cm. high
Provenance
Sale Collection Frans Claes, 'De Gulden Spoor', auction house Gruter,
Antwerp, 27 November- 1 December 1933, lot 1334.
The present owner.
Antwerp, 27 November- 1 December 1933, lot 1334.
The present owner.
Literature
Exhibition Catalogue, Catalogus Antwerps Plateel, Tentoonstelling Fries Museum Leeuwarden, 18 December 1971- 29 January 1972, ill. 38, p. 43.
Exhibited
On loan to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, untill July 2004.
Special notice
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