Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
Gold Boxes, Ceramics & Silver
A pair of Delft chinoiserie double-gourd-shaped vases, circa 1667
Lot Closed
May 26, 01:04 PM GMT
Estimate
2,500 - 3,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A pair of Delft chinoiserie double-gourd-shaped vases
circa 1667
each with a squat globular lower part below an ovoid section moulded with a central girdle below a baluster neck, painted in the late Ming style with figures in stylised landscapes, the necks reduced
46 cm., 18 in. high
2
For a vase of similar forom from the collection of Fürst zu Dohna-Schlobitten, Museum für Kunstandwerk, Frankfurt-am-Main, inv. 12229 illustrated Christine Lahaussois et al., Delft – Faïence, Paris, 2008, p. 79, fig. 3 and pp. 76 and 78 for a discussion by Hans Ressing on the market for Delft in Germany and Northern Europe relating to items of Delftware in the Dohna-Schlobitten collection.