TWO LARGE DUTCH DELFT FIGURAL FOUNTAIN JUGS AS A PEASANT COUPLE , painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief as a portly peasant woman and her male companion, she wearing a yellow hat above her fluffy face, her shoulders covered with a blue scarf, a tight bodice scattered with flowers, her right arm covering her breasts, with a draped flowing apron scattered with florettes covering her fat bellly, with dark manganese-red slippers, seated on marbled rockwork base applied with a green gnarled branch handle, with a hole under her apron, with a yellow hat cover, he wearing a manganese-red hat above his fluffy face, with a scarf around his neck, with a purple jacket covering a flowered light-green vest, with a triple sash tied around his belly, with his left hand touching his heart, with a pair of blue trousers, with knee-high white socks, with manganese-red shoes, seated on a floral rockwork base applied with a leafy flowering branch, with a metal spigot between his legs (she with repairs to hat and above her right eyebrow, with a repair to the middle of her lap; he with repairs to rim of hat, the upper extremity of branch restored, one applied leaf restored, one speck to left forearm restored, left shoe repaired, some glaze repair to left knee, left corner to underside rockwork repaired), she marked for de porceleyne Klaauw above 100, circa 1750 she 32 cm high he 29 cm high See illustration (2)

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TWO LARGE DUTCH DELFT FIGURAL FOUNTAIN JUGS AS A PEASANT COUPLE , painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief as a portly peasant woman and her male companion, she wearing a yellow hat above her fluffy face, her shoulders covered with a blue scarf, a tight bodice scattered with flowers, her right arm covering her breasts, with a draped flowing apron scattered with florettes covering her fat bellly, with dark manganese-red slippers, seated on marbled rockwork base applied with a green gnarled branch handle, with a hole under her apron, with a yellow hat cover, he wearing a manganese-red hat above his fluffy face, with a scarf around his neck, with a purple jacket covering a flowered light-green vest, with a triple sash tied around his belly, with his left hand touching his heart, with a pair of blue trousers, with knee-high white socks, with manganese-red shoes, seated on a floral rockwork base applied with a leafy flowering branch, with a metal spigot between his legs (she with repairs to hat and above her right eyebrow, with a repair to the middle of her lap; he with repairs to rim of hat, the upper extremity of branch restored, one applied leaf restored, one speck to left forearm restored, left shoe repaired, some glaze repair to left knee, left corner to underside rockwork repaired), she marked for de porceleyne Klaauw above 100, circa 1750
she 32 cm high
he 29 cm high

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