Lot Essay
See Aronson Antiquairs, Dutch Delftware, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 2000-2001, ill. 23 for a set from the same factory, the cruets of variant form and with delft covers, painted with Chinoiserie plants, the footrims with the same borders; also D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, Niederländische Fayence, Munich, 1984, p. 202, no. 61 for another in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.