Sale 2320
Amsterdam
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3 December 1996
Price realised
NLG 2,306
Estimate
a pair of white delft figures of standing laundresses Mid 18th Century (wasvrouwtjes) After a silver model of salt-cellars, naturalistically modelled in relief with a maiden holding a wash-tub on her head, on shaped plinth 14cm. high (2)
Provenance
Collection Hoogendijk, Baarn
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In this white Delft variation of salt-cellars the utility vanished and the object became merely decorative See illustration p. 73
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