Lot 249
249
A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT CANDLESTICKS

CIRCA 1678-1691, EITHER SAMUEL VAN EENHOORN AT DE GRIEKSCHE A (1678-1686) OR LAMBERTUS CLEFFIUS AT DE METALE POT (1679-1691)

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A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT CANDLESTICKS
CIRCA 1678-1691, EITHER SAMUEL VAN EENHOORN AT DE GRIEKSCHE A (1678-1686) OR LAMBERTUS CLEFFIUS AT DE METALE POT (1679-1691)
After a silver model of the 'early rounded type', each hexafoil shaft issuing from an everted knop and domed circular foot, painted in cobalt blue on a pale robin's egg blue ground with flowering branches and birds in flight
10 7/8 in. (27.9 cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Dr. J.A. McMonson, no. 1622.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 26-27 June 2007, lot 38.
With Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire.

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Lot Essay

See M. van Aken-Fehmers, Delfts Aardewerk, Volume I, Zwolle, 1999, p. 96, ill. 6 for related candlesticks marked for Samuel van Eenhoorn; also Robert D. Aronson assisted by Suzanne M.R. Lambooy, Dutch Delftware, including Selections from A Distinguished Manhattan Collector, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 9, no. 4 for a pair of dishes marked for Lambertus Cleffius and painted with similar birds.

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