Live Auction 1585European Noble & Private Collections Including Fine Tapestries Part I
A DUTCH DELFT (DE METAALEN POT) BLUE AND WHITE TULIP VASE
Lot 147 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SWISS COLLECTION (LOTS 32-38, 147-153, 278-281 & 336-339)

A DUTCH DELFT (DE METAALEN POT) BLUE AND WHITE TULIP VASE

CIRCA 1695, BLUE LVE 2/0 MARK FOR LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METAALEN POT

Closed16 April 2014

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GBP 37,500

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A DUTCH DELFT (DE METAALEN POT) BLUE AND WHITE TULIP VASE
CIRCA 1695, BLUE LVE 2/0 MARK FOR LAMBERTUS VAN EENHOORN AT DE METAALEN POT
The cartouche-shaped body modelled in relief on one side with a classical male portrait bust on a socle base, the other side with a cartouche-shaped panel painted with a vase of flowers, amongst moulded swaged drapery
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high

Specialist note

An unmarked tulip vase of very similar form and decoration to the present lot is at Kingston Lacy in Wimborne Minster, Dorset (National Trust inventory no. KLA.C.27). The National Trust example, modelled with a female bust portrait, is illustrated by Marion S. Aken-Fehmers, Delfts aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, Vazen met tuiten, 300 jaar pronkstukken, Volume IV, Zwolle, 2007, p. 248, no. 9.08.