A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE DOUBLE GOURD VASE, 1685-1700 |

painted in Kangxi style with continuous panels of birds perched in flowering branches, the shoulder painted with a band of foliate scrolls reserving cartouches of flowers, blue GK monogram for Gerrit Pietersz Kam of Drie Postelyne Astonne (The Three Porcelain Ash-Barrels) factory, or De Paeuw (The Peacock) factory,

In good appearance and generally good condition. The rim with a flat chip and some minor glaze flakes. The foot rim with some very minor glaze flakes.
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A near identical vase marked for Gerrit Pietersz Kam is in the collection of the V&A museum, London, mus. no. C.85-1951.