A DUTCH DELFT COVERED MELON TUREEN AND STAND, painted in colours and naturalistically modelled in relief as a yellow melon applied with gnarled manganese-red branches applied with green leaves and flowerbuds, the tripod stand as a large shaped green leaf painted with dark nervation enclosing further blue hatches (tiny part of a branch to cover missing, some glaze missing to inside tureen), the stand marked in underglaze blue for de porceleyne bijl, circa 1770