CIRCA 1720-1740

Details

A DUTCH DELFT CLOTHING BRUSH
CIRCA 1720-1740
Oblong and fitted with horsehair bristles, the handle as a female nude, the brush back painted in a bright palette with branches of flowering prunus issuing from rockwork
11 7/8 in. (30.2 cm.) long

Provenance

With Mark and Marjorie Allen, New Hampshire.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

See Henry-Pierre Fourest, Delftware: Faïence production at Delft, New York, 1980, fig. 61 for an example with a figure for the handle and Dave and Robert Aronson, Dutch Delftware 2005, Amsterdam, 2005, p. 30, no. 25 for a blue and white example with a reeded baluster handle with double-knop terminal.

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