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CIRCA 1700
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A DUTCH DELFT IMARI TULIP-VASE
CIRCA 1700
The heart-shaped body surmounted by five nozzles of octagonal section, the front with three further nozzles, painted in the Imari palette with birds in flight and flowering shrubs, the reverse with a figure walking over a bridge in an exotic landscape with trees, flowering shrubs and pagodas, the sides with two winged beast handles, on a flared rectangular foot with green-ground panels reserved with white and red scrolling foliage and blue-ground panels at the sides with circular and foliate cartouches enclosing imitation Chinese characters (central front nozzle a replacement, restored chipping to six other nozzles, footrim and beast's mouths, restuck section to front right corner of base with associated losses)
7 7/8 in. (20.1 cm.) high
CIRCA 1700
The heart-shaped body surmounted by five nozzles of octagonal section, the front with three further nozzles, painted in the Imari palette with birds in flight and flowering shrubs, the reverse with a figure walking over a bridge in an exotic landscape with trees, flowering shrubs and pagodas, the sides with two winged beast handles, on a flared rectangular foot with green-ground panels reserved with white and red scrolling foliage and blue-ground panels at the sides with circular and foliate cartouches enclosing imitation Chinese characters (central front nozzle a replacement, restored chipping to six other nozzles, footrim and beast's mouths, restuck section to front right corner of base with associated losses)
7 7/8 in. (20.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Heinrich Bielenberg, Rasmussen and Bielenberg, Wilhelmstrasse, Berlin, and thence by descent to the present owner.
Special notice
No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis