Live Auction 10398Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
TWO DUTCH DELFT TILES
Lot 31 DONGXI STUDIO - WORKS OF ART FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE BELGIAN COLLECTION (Lots 21, 24-26, 30, 31, 33-36, 38, 41 & 43)

TWO DUTCH DELFT TILES

CIRCA 1610-30

Closed2 December 2015

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GBP 1,500

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TWO DUTCH DELFT TILES
CIRCA 1610-30
The square tile painted with an elephant, the rectangular tile with an hound in landscape (minor rim chipping)
The elephant tile 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) square

The Leerink Collection; sold Kunstveilingen Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam,18 November 1980, lot 53 (the elephant tile) and lot 184 (the hound tile).

Specialist note

For a similarly decorated tile with an elephant, see Dr. Pieter Biesboer, Nederlandse Majolica 1550-1650, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 164, no. 194, and p. 163, no. 193 for a border tile with a lion, stylistically similar to the tile with the hound in the present lot.