A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME HEART-SHAPED TULIP VASE EARLY 18TH CENTURY

painted on the front with oriental flowers issuing from pierced rockwork and on the reverse with an oriental figure crossing a bridge in a riverscape, affixed on either side with a winged grotesque handle. Together with a similarly decorated Dutch Delft polychrome tulip vase, 19th century.  2 pieces.

The Collection of Maurits Pinto
Christie's Amsterdam, December 12, 1995, lots 414 and 415, illustrated

The early-18th-century vase has restored chips to the spouts of the vase; the tip of each handle is restored; several very minor glaze chips to the edge of the foot. The 19th-century vase is restored through the stem of the vase.
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