A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE QUADRUPOD OBELISK TULIPIERE BASE, THE SQUARE BASE DECORATED WITH TWO PANELS DEPICTING BACCHUS HOLDING A GOBLET SURROUNDED WITH SATYRS AND GRAPES AND TWO PANELS WITH A MAIDEN HOLDING A FLOWERFILLED CORNUCOPIA, AMIDST FLOWERS AND TWO PUTTI, BORDERED WITH SCROLLS AND DOTS, THE PLATFORM SURMOUNTED WITH A QUADRUPOD TIER FLANKED BY MOORISH PORTRAIT BUSTS, THE FEET MODELLED AS PAWS, WITH FOUR NOZZLES MODELLED AS GROTESQUE MASKES (TWO FEET RESTORED), PROBABLY VAN DER LAAN, DE DRYE KLOKKEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY

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A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE QUADRUPOD OBELISK TULIPIERE BASE, THE SQUARE BASE DECORATED WITH TWO PANELS DEPICTING BACCHUS HOLDING A GOBLET SURROUNDED WITH SATYRS AND GRAPES AND TWO PANELS WITH A MAIDEN HOLDING A FLOWERFILLED CORNUCOPIA, AMIDST FLOWERS AND TWO PUTTI, BORDERED WITH SCROLLS AND DOTS, THE PLATFORM SURMOUNTED WITH A QUADRUPOD TIER FLANKED BY MOORISH PORTRAIT BUSTS, THE FEET MODELLED AS PAWS, WITH FOUR NOZZLES MODELLED AS GROTESQUE MASKES (TWO FEET RESTORED), PROBABLY VAN DER LAAN, DE DRYE KLOKKEN, LATE 17TH CENTURY
37.5 CM HIGH

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CF. - D.F. LUNSINGH SCHEURLEER, DELFTS, P.262 FOR SIMILAR TULIPIèRE BASES BY VAN DER LAAN, DE DRYE KLOKKEN
- JKVR. C.H. DE JONGE, DELFTSCH, P.244 ILL.211 FOR THE ABOVE, BY VAN DER LAAN

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