A Dutch Delft blue and white flower vase and tiered cover, circa 1695
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
of quatrefoil scalloped and barbed shape, affixed at either side with a salamander-type handle, painted with panels of fabulous beasts and birds reserved on a dotted ground with flowers, separated by panels painted with masks, the domed cover with eight gu-form spouts against a blue-ground motif border of flowerheads, centred with a hexafoil bottle-shaped vase decorated with blue lappets and floral scrollwork, issuing six further spouts, AK mark in blue for Adrianus Kocx owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1686 to 1701
Height 11 1/2 in; Haut. 29,2 cm
An American Private Collection;
Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam;
Acquired from the above at TEFAF Maastricht, 2015
Aronson Antiquairs, Dutch Delftware, Qui Capit Capitur, Amsterdam, 2015, pp. 52-53, cat. no. 28.
It would appear that very few Dutch Delft flower vases of this form modelled with Salamander-type creatures are recorded. One near identical vase painted in the same pattern is in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, acc. no. A2807 (KN & V), illustrated in M. S. Van Aken-Fehmers, Delft Aardewerk Geschiedenis van een national product Vazen met tuiten 300 jaar pronkstukken, Volume IV, Zwolle, 2007, pp. 152-153, cat. no. 3. 07. This rare vase form is typically found with ‘dragon’ or ‘phoenix head’ handles; Van Aken-Fehmers, ibid, has identified fourteen covered vases, and illustrates seven others alongside the Boijmans Van Beuningen vase (all seven are applied with dragon form handles), pp. 150-154, cat. nos. 3.03-3.08. Those identified include a pair in the Kunstmuseum Den Haag, obj. no. 0401074; a single vase in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, obj. no. C.2607 A-1928, and another in the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, inv. no. 10315. A vase of that form, from the Property of Christopher Hussey, Esq., sold, Sotheby's London, 25 June 1968, lot 1. All known examples are marked for the Greek A factory, except for one with Lambertus van Eenhoorn’s mark, owner of De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, obj. no. BK-NM-13313. A variation of this vase modelled with salamanders was in the collection of the Industrial Society of Mulhouse, sold, Rob Michiels Auction, Bruges, 16-17 October, 2024, lot 1145.
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