A pair of Dutch Delft polychrome bottle vases, early 18th century

by Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, of octagonal baluster form with a flaring rim, painted with birds perched within a large spray of flowers issuing from rock work, the shoulder with a lambrequin border, and flower sprigs to the neck, iron-red PAK marks for Pieter Adriaensz Kocx, owner of the De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory, partially legible painted 'no 8', partially legible embossed marks 'WIII' and 'VIII' (?),

Perhaps the pair from the collection of Mari Paul Voûte, Jr. (1882–1955), Baarn, The Netherlands, sold at Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 17th-25th April, 1956, no. 55.

J.F. Heijbroek & A.Th.P van Griensven, Kunst, kennis en kwaliteit, Zwolle, 2007, p. 124, illustrated in a photograph from 1965.

Both vases have chips to the outer edges of the footrim and associate glaze loss, visible in the catalogue illustration. The vase in the left of the illustration with a flat chip to the top edge of the rim, the other vase with a chip to the side edge of the rim. Both with typical minor glaze flakes to rims.
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A bottle vase of this form and decoration is illustrated by M.S. van Aaken-Fehmers, et al. Delfts Aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, Zwolle, 1999, p. 130, no. 37.