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A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BRUSH BACK, CIRCA 1740-1760
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May 20, 01:30 PM GMT
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 GBP
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A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BRUSH BACK, CIRCA 1740-1760
of octagonal form with a domed central panel painted with a dancing Harlequin holding a slap-stick and a flask, before a low table on a chequered tiled floor below drapery, within a border of flowers on scrolling tendrils on a blue-ground band, pierced for hanging, the underside unglazed and impressed with apertures
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The Josephine and Walter Buhl Ford II Collection, Michigan, sale Sotheby's, New York, 6th October 2006, lot 147.
With Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam.
The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection, sale Christie's, London, 27th-28th November 2012, lot 74.
Robert Aronson, `Dutch Delftware`, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 2007, p. 46, no. 34.
Abraham, B., Commedia dell'Arte, The Patricia & Rodes Hart Collection of European Porcelain and Faience, Amsterdam, 2010, pp. 188-189.
COMPARISONS:
See Scaap, E.B., Delft Ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 2003, pp. 24-5 for an example of similar form. For further discussion see van Dam, J.D., Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch delftware 1620-1850, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 138 and 140, and Lange, A.E., Delftware at Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, 2001, p. 137 where the authors discuss the production and use of similar brushes. Brushes were backed in wood, ceramic and silver for the upper end of society and would often have been intended as clothes brushes.