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A DUTCH DELFT (DRIE POSTELEYNE ASTONNE) BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM VASE AND A BEAKER VASE

1679-1700, BLUE GK MONOGRAMS FOR GERRIT PIETERSZ. KAM TO BOTH, THE FIRST ALSO WITH TWO CROSSES

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A DUTCH DELFT (DRIE POSTELEYNE ASTONNE) BLUE AND WHITE OVIFORM VASE AND A BEAKER VASE
1679-1700, BLUE GK MONOGRAMS FOR GERRIT PIETERSZ. KAM TO BOTH, THE FIRST ALSO WITH TWO CROSSES
The first with a short neck, the second of waisted flared form, each painted with Oriental ladies taking tea and at various pursuits attended by male servants in pavilions with posts supporting archways, balconies and elaborate trellis frameworks, before fences and vases and trees beyond, the first also with a male courtier, between horizontal lines, the lower parts with borders of pendant trefoils and triangles, the upper parts with bands of tightly scrolling foliage with meandering stems and flowerheads (first with chipping to rim, slight hairline cracks to neck and slight chipping to footrim, rim of second with very slight chipping, restored chip and restored section, footrim with minute fritting)
8¼ in. (21 cm.) and 9 in. (22.9 cm) high (2)

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Lot Essay

The similarity of the decoration and the proportion of the vases in relation to each other suggests that these two vases once formed part of the same garniture.

The same pattern occurs on a double-gourd vase in the Hague, illustrated by Marion S. van Aken-Fehmers and Loet A. Schledorn, 'Delfts aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product' Gemeentemuseum, The Hague Catalogue (The Hague, 2001), Vol. II, no. 49, p. 212.

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