A BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL HEXAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG AND COVER for the Dutch market, painted beneath the spout with a coat-of-arms on an elaborate scroll ground surmounted by a coronet, the C-scroll handle dividing two sprays of peony, all beneath a band of floral scroll at the rim, the shallow domed cover with knop finial (cover rim restored), circa 1750 | Christie's

Lot 130

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A BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL HEXAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG AND COVER for the Dutch market, painted beneath the spout with a coat-of-arms on an elaborate scroll ground surmounted by a coronet, the C-scroll handle dividing two sprays of peony, all beneath a band of floral scroll at the rim, the shallow domed cover with knop finial (cover rim restored), circa 1750

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A BLUE AND WHITE ARMORIAL HEXAGONAL PEAR-SHAPED MILK JUG AND COVER for the Dutch market, painted beneath the spout with a coat-of-arms on an elaborate scroll ground surmounted by a coronet, the C-scroll handle dividing two sprays of peony, all beneath a band of floral scroll at the rim, the shallow domed cover with knop finial (cover rim restored), circa 1750
15cm. high

Lot Essay

The arms are those of Peers impaling Marashal. Cf. D. F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, op. cit., pl. 262 for a plate with the same coat of arms in De Sypesteyn Museum, Loosdrecht. The author records the arms as unknown

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