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A DUTCH DELFT MELON-FORM BOX AND COVER AND LEAF-FORM STAND
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A DUTCH DELFT MELON-FORM BOX AND COVER AND LEAF-FORM STAND

MID-18TH CENTURY, THE COVER AND BOX WITH BLUE NUMBER 2, THE STAND WITH BLUE HATCHET MARKS FOR DE PORCELEYNE BIJL

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A DUTCH DELFT MELON-FORM BOX AND COVER AND LEAF-FORM STAND
MID-18TH CENTURY, THE COVER AND BOX WITH BLUE NUMBER 2, THE STAND WITH BLUE HATCHET MARKS FOR DE PORCELEYNE BIJL
The spherical yellow melon painted with green texturing, the cover with tall green stem and applied with leaves and blue, yellow, and iron-red flowers, the leaf-form stand green and painted with brown and blue veins, raised on three knobby feet
6 ¾ in. (17.2 cm.) high, the box; 8 ½ in. (21.5 cm.) long

Collection Voûte, Amsterdam.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 12 May 1993, lot 383.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

Note du spécialiste

A similarly modeled melon box on leaf-form stand by De Porceleyne Bijl is illustrated in M. S. van Aken-Fehmers and L. A. Schledorn, Delfts Aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een Nationaal Product, Deel II, Den Haag, 2001, p. 238, no. 64, illus. p. 175.