a pair of white delft figures of standing laundresses

MID 18TH CENTURY

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a pair of white delft figures of standing laundresses
Mid 18th Century
(wasvrouwtjes) After a silver model of salt-cellars, naturalistically modelled in relief with a maiden holding a wash-tub on her head, on shaped plinth
14cm. high (2)

Provenance

Collection Hoogendijk, Baarn

Lot Essay

In this white Delft variation of salt-cellars the utility vanished and the object became merely decorative

See illustration p. 73

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