A rare pair of Dutch Delft figural butter tubs and covers, circa 1760-65

the covers modelled as a fisherman holding a large fish and a knife, and his wife with a basket of crayfish painted in tones of green, yellow and brown, upon blue washed bases painted with scattered bulrushes, on squat rounded tubs with scroll rims painted with flower sprigs, some restoration,

Both bases have a restored chip to the moulded fringe on the rim. The cover with a female figure: the handle of the basket and her neck have been restored. Under a UV an area of restoration appears on the top edge her right upper arm but not the underside.
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Two related butter tubs of this form, illustrated in Delfts Aardewerk, the catalogue of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag collection, p.232, cat nr.111, one with a yellow ground surmounted with a model of Minerva, the other with a Lion and bocage both bear a CB mark, possibly for Cornelis Dircksz de Berg