CIRCA 1760, MARKED FOR DE DRYE KLOKKEN

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A Dutch Delft polychrome albarello and a cover
Circa 1760, marked for de Drye Klokken
The cylindrical body decorated with an escutcheon flanked by floral garlands, surmounted by a neoclassical urn containing an aloe and inscibed P.CASSIAE.FIST, the slightly domed cover en suite with a blue band
18,3cm high

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Lot Essay

Cassia Fistularis: pulp obtained from pods of the tree Cassia Fistula.
Cf. D.A.Wittop Koning, Apothekerspotten (Amsterdam 1991), p.70 ill.112 for similar albarelli in the Vleeshuis, Antwerp.

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