CIRCA 1780, ONE WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE STORK MARK, THE OTHER WITH BLUE M.O.L. ABOVE * MARK

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A The Hague-decorated neoclassical bowl and its Loosdrecht pendant
CIRCA 1780, ONE WITH UNDERGLAZE BLUE STORK MARK, THE OTHER WITH BLUE M.O.L. ABOVE * MARK
Painted on each side with a pink-ground medallion with a grisaille portrait in profile of a Roman emperor, flanked by flower branches and surmounted by a pink tied bow, with guilloche gilt rims, the inside with a flower bouquet
20 cm. diam. (2)

Provenance

The I.S. de Vries Collection of Dutch Porcelain; Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 November 1990, lot 226.

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Further details

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Lot Essay

See den Blaauwen, 1988, p.220 for a Loosdrecht example in Kasteel Sypesteyn, Nieuw-Loosdrecht, and see Scholten, 2000, pp.129-130 and ill.p.57 for a The Hague jug with similar decoration. See den Blaauwen, 1965, pp.30-31 for a discussion.
The Loosdrecht bowl is a copy after the The Hague-decorated bowl, exactly copying each flower and detail of the portraits. It is probably a contemporary replacement. A true pair would be slightly different and the portraits would be facing each other and not looking in the same direction.

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