A rare Dutch Delft blue and white basket

of oval quatrefoil form with two high scrollwork handles, intricately pierced on the sides, reserving a painted cartouche of a wandering duck in a pond, A/D/12 in blue for Jan Teunis Dextra of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory, blue 115, incised letter F, 

Acquired in 2008.

There is a fine hairline crack to a section of piercing on a longer side, otherwise typical glaze flakes to extremities.
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A basket of identical form and pattern with the same painter's marks is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, ob. no. BK-NM-9788-B.