CIRCA 1680, MARKED LC AND AV FOR LAMBERTUS CLEFFIUS, DE PAEUW FACTORY

Details

A Dutch Delft blue and white chinoiserie octagonal wigstand
Circa 1680, marked LC and AV for Lambertus Cleffius, De Paeuw factory
The bulbous upper part decorated with a continuous scene of Oriental figures at various pursuits in a garden, beneath a band of stylised lotus-leaf motifs, the top pierced with a small central aperture and decorated with two Oriental figures, on knopped stem painted with stylised foliage and lotus-leaf motifs and domed foot, some small areas of restoration
25 cm. (9 7/8 in.) high

Provenance

With Salomon Stodel Antiquités, Amsterdam, 1994 (inventory no. DA-169-), acquired by
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. I-17).

Exhibited

Maastricht, The European Fine Art Fair, 12-20 March 1994.

Special notice

Christie's charges a Buyer's premium calculated at 20.825% of the hammer price for each lot with a value up to €90,000. If the hammer price of a lot exceeds €90,000 then the premium for the lot is calculated at 20.825% of the first €90,000 plus 11.9% of any amount in excess of €90,000. Buyer's Premium is calculated on this basis for each lot individually.

Lot Essay

For a similar Delft wigstand by Lambertus Cleffius in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, see C.H. de Jonge, Delfts aardewerk, Amsterdam, 1965, p. 146, plate VII, and see ill. 69 for a comparable wigstand.

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