CIRCA 1700, PERHAPS LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METALE POT FACTORY

For a set of five similarly decorated vases in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, including a central vase of the same form as the present lot, also unmarked, see Jan Daniël van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch delftware 1620-1850, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 110, no. 61. As 17th and 18th century Dutch delftware became more widely collected in the 19th century the term 'cashmere' was applied to decoration of this type, after the fine woollen cashmere shawls from India that were popular during this period as they were similarly decorated with dense and colourful patterns of flowers and foliage.