A DUTCH DELFT 'CASHMIRE' RIBBED OCTAGONAL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

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

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A DUTCH DELFT 'CASHMIRE' RIBBED OCTAGONAL BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
CIRCA 1700, PERHAPS LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METALE POT FACTORY
Painted with four panels of birds amongst Oriental flowering foliage and bamboo alternating with smaller tree and rockwork panels surmounted by birds against a diaper ground, the shoulder with panels of flowers and foliage, the domed cover with similar panels within lappet borders (cover with replacement finial and restoration to rim, minor glaze chipping)
22 in. (55.9 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Delorme and Collin du Bocage, Drouot Richelieu, Paris, 17 June 2009, lot 116.
With Guest & Gray, London.

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Lot Essay

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.

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