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(4) A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white chinoiserie armorial gin bottles and silver covers

MARKED AK FOR ADRIANUS KOCKS AT DE GRIEKSCHE A, 1686-1695, THE SILVER MOUNTS AND COVERS GERMANY, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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(4) A pair of Dutch Delft blue and white chinoiserie armorial gin bottles and silver covers
MARKED AK FOR ADRIANUS KOCKS AT DE GRIEKSCHE A, 1686-1695, THE SILVER MOUNTS AND COVERS GERMANY, LATE 19TH CENTURY
Jeneverflessen, the rectangular bodies painted to the front with the crowned coat-of-arms of the Austrian Zinzendorf family, further with Orientals at various pursuits in lush gardens, the lower border with interlaced motifs, the blue-ground tapering shoulders reserved with shaped panels containing foliage, the upright necks with silver mounts, the silver covers moulded with a crowned monogram
Circa 22 cm. high (4)

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Lot Essay

Cf. D. & R. Aronson, Dutch Delftware, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 69, ill. 79 for a similar bottle from the Dr. Günther Grethe Collection, Hamburg. Aronson mentions other objects from this dinner service, commissioned by the Zinzendorf family, presently in the collections of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, the Sankt Annen Museum, Lübeck and the National Museum, Stockholm.

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