A RARE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE FOUR-TIERED OBELISK- AND HEART-SHAPED TULIPIERE (hartvormige waaierbloemhouder met obelisk bekroning), the heartshaped flowervase painted with two winged cherubs playing with birds, surrounded by floral branches to the front, with two winged cherubs holding each other, a bird above them, surrounded by floral branches to the reverse, the sides with floral bands, on spreading rectangular base painted with huge lappets, the sides applied with two-catlike-shaped animal handles, the shoulders applied with four nozzles surmounted with a bipod and flattened rectangular tapering box decorated with floral scrolls, applied with four nozzles, the feet modelled as animal paws, the removable upper part with three tiers en suite applied with four nozzles, the upper tier as a small obelisk finial, with a monogram mark for Louwijs Fictoorsz at de dubbelde Schenkkan or Lambertus van Eenhoorn at de metalen pot (these two factories used an almost identical monogram (repaired and damaged), circa 1700

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A RARE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE FOUR-TIERED OBELISK- AND HEART-SHAPED TULIPIERE (hartvormige waaierbloemhouder met obelisk bekroning), the heartshaped flowervase painted with two winged cherubs playing with birds, surrounded by floral branches to the front, with two winged cherubs holding each other, a bird above them, surrounded by floral branches to the reverse, the sides with floral bands, on spreading rectangular base painted with huge lappets, the sides applied with two-catlike-shaped animal handles, the shoulders applied with four nozzles surmounted with a bipod and flattened rectangular tapering box decorated with floral scrolls, applied with four nozzles, the feet modelled as animal paws, the removable upper part with three tiers en suite applied with four nozzles, the upper tier as a small obelisk finial, with a monogram mark for Louwijs Fictoorsz at de dubbelde Schenkkan or Lambertus van Eenhoorn at de metalen pot (these two factories used an almost identical monogram (repaired and damaged), circa 1700
circa 47.5 cm high

Lot Essay

cf. - B. Rackham, Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection in the Fitz William Museum Cambridge, p. 208 no. 2616 for a similarly shaped and decorated tulipière - R. Brouwer, Bloempotgens met Tuyten, Delftse Tulpenvazen 1680-1720, Museum het Prinsenhof Delft (20.06.92 - 0.09.92) for an interesting discussion on tulipvases

Locations of other obelisk- and heartshaped tulipières.

- one at the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels (Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis), marked for de Metalen Pot or de Dobbelde Schenkkan, circa 1700 - one at the Amsterdams Historisch Museum, Museum Willet Holthuysen, Amsterdam, unmarked, circa 1700.

This shape can be derived
a) from the chinoiserie taste prevalent at the late 17th Century European Courts (the Chinese pagoda at Nanking-well known from engravings) b) from the Italian taste for obelisks (associated with Egyptian pyramids). This tulipière is a perfect example for the interaction between the East and the West.

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