A rare Dutch Delft blue and white ewer, circa 1691-1721

by Lambertus van Eenhoorn, of baroque helmet form with high blue-ground flat-scroll handle, the basally fluted body painted with ribboned flower swags and foliate strapwork below a blue-ground border of flowering cherry, the domed foot with a formal foliate strapwork border, the interior with a small clump of water plants below a further scroll border, LVE mark over letters for Lambertus van Eenhoorn owner of De Metale Pot factory, minor damage

The Stodel collection (paper label to base)

The interior with a broad craquelure, several glaze cracks, one of which may be a hair crack at the rim; the others seem not to pass through the fabric.
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