LATE 18TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT TILE PICTURE COLUMNS (TEGELPILASTERS)
LATE 18TH CENTURY
Each of twenty-six tiles, painted in manganese red as a mirror image with a large bird perched in a vertical vine stalk and pecking at the ripe fruit, a spider web above its head, smaller birds among the branches or nibbling the fruit, a keeshond barking below, a pig sniffing for truffles also at the base of the stalk, a vintager with a donkey laden with baskets of grapes walking towards a couple stomping grapes in a wooden vat, fields of vines in the background
66½ x 10¼ in. (168.9 x 26 cm.), excluding the modern wood frames (2)

來源

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 November 1990, lot 42.

注意事項

From time to time, Christie's may offer a lot which it owns in whole or in part. This is such a lot.

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For a pair of tile columns or pilasters, used in the 18th century to flank fireplaces as a substitute for the carved sandstone figures that served this purpose in the 17th century, see The Dutch Interior, Christie's, Amsterdam, 28 September 2000, lot 317. The present pair, each two tiles wide and thirteen tiles high, were designed to serve the same purpose.