A series of twelve Dutch Delft blue and white Greenland whaling plates
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A series of twelve Dutch Delft blue and white Greenland whaling plates

1760-1770, DE PORCELEYNE BIJL MARK

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A series of twelve Dutch Delft blue and white Greenland whaling plates
1760-1770, DE PORCELEYNE BIJL MARK
Decorated with various related scenes and numbered from one to twelve, inscribed in Dutch: No 1. De Groenl: Vloot gaat in Zee.; No 2. De Vloot Seylt in t ijs.; No 3. t Harpoen in de Walvis.; No 4. t Loopen van de Walvis.; No 5. Harponiers gereed om te Lenssen.; No 6. De Walvis keerd Zig Om.; No 7. De Walvis na Boord geroeijd.; No 8. t afmaaken van de Walvis.; No 9. t Schieten en Kneppelen der walrussen.; No 10. Den ijs Beer gedoot.; No 11. De Vloot Seijlt Binnen; No 12. t Kooken van de Traan. (one with restoration to the border, with minor rim chips)
24.7 cm. diam. (12)
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Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

See D.F Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, München, 1984, p. 282 ill. 265.

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