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EARLY 18TH CENTURY, MARKED FOR LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METALEN POT
Details
a dutch delft blue and white heart-shaped tulipiere
Early 18th Century, marked for Lambertus van Eenhoorn at De Metalen Pot
The body decorated with Flora holding a cornucopia and flowers, seated amid flowers, the reverse with a chinoiserie-pattern of a peacock on a rock near a fence and foliage in the background, surmounted by eight tubular nozzles and flanked by animal handles, on a rising rectangular plinth decorated with foliage (some nozzles restored)
24 cm. (9 1/5 in.) high
Early 18th Century, marked for Lambertus van Eenhoorn at De Metalen Pot
The body decorated with Flora holding a cornucopia and flowers, seated amid flowers, the reverse with a chinoiserie-pattern of a peacock on a rock near a fence and foliage in the background, surmounted by eight tubular nozzles and flanked by animal handles, on a rising rectangular plinth decorated with foliage (some nozzles restored)
24 cm. (9 1/5 in.) high
Provenance
The publisher A. Oosthoek, Utrecht
Literature
Cf. Stodel, J. ,The Splendour of Dutch Delftware, p. 39, for a pair of tulipvases from the "De Metalen Pot" factory from which the lower part is similar to the one in this lot