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Lot 721 Dα

Nine Dutch faience tiles

Auction 1244 - overview Cologne
15.05.2024, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Ceramics
Estimate: 300 € - 400 €
Result: 315 € (incl. premium)
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Nine Dutch faience tiles

Six with grape motifs, six with pomegranates. With lilies in the corners and repeating rosettes. Some chips to the rims, one restored broken tile and one probably later crazed tile. Slightly differing sizes, c. 13 x 13 cm.
Early 17th C.

Provenance

The Dr Jürgen Baur Collection.

Literature

De Jonge, Delft Keramik, Tübingen 1969, p. 21f., with fig. 11, refers to the contemporary designation of the pomegranate motif as 'Oranienäpfel', alluding to the armistice between the Netherlands and Spain.
Cf. Heinemeyer, cat. Wand- und Bodenfliesen im Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Oldenburg 1988, p. 37, cat. nos. 69 and 70.
Cf. Mees, Kunstnijverheid 1600 - 1800 en Tegels. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam 1997, p. 297, inv. no. 6085.