An important set of three large Delftware faience vases
Comprising one covered baluster-form vase of octagonal section flanked by two smaller and narrower baluster-form vases. All three vases decorated throughout in blue and lavender with chinoiserie landscape scenes, these identical on the two smaller vases whilst the central vase bears additional motifs. Identical lambrequin borders surrounding the shoulders and lid, the rims with identical foliate borders. Both narrower vases with blue H mark to the undersides, one additionally with I. A small restoration to the neck of one of the narrower vases, minor unobtrusive chips, minor cracks, some ash in the glaze of the larger vase. H of vase with lid 71 cm, H narrow vases 64 and 64.5 cm.
1670 - 90.
Provenance
Private collection, Copenhagen.
Literature
Cf. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft Niederländische Fayence, Munich 1984, illus. 171 f.
Cf. Stodel, The Splendour of Dutch Delftware, London 1993, no. 6.
Cf. van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch delftware 1620 - 1850, Amsterdam 2004, no. 32, from the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. no. BK-NM-12400-445.
Cf. Lahaussois, Delft - Faïence, Paris 2008, fig. 1, a similarly decorated garniture dated after 1696 in the collection of the National Trust, The Bankes Collection, Kingston Lacy, Dorset. Ibid. fig.2, and a slightly larger vase and cover dated to around 1675 also owned by the National Trust in the Parker Collection, Saltram House, Devon.