A pair of silver-mounted Dutch Delft doré Imari-style covered tankards, circa 1700-20, bearing spurious hallmarks
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November 6, 07:36 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
Lot Details
Description
each of tapering form with ribbed handle, decorated in iron-red, blue and gilding with birds in flight and perched on flowering plants amidst rockwork, flowering plants and grasses, below a blue-edged border with iron-red-ground floral lappets alternating with gilt trellis-ground lappets centred with mons; the silver covers with spurious hallmarks, contemporary with the tankards and engraved with coats-of-arms, one with the arms of the city of Leeuwarden, each with a central medallion enclosed by a border of repoussé acanthus leaves, fan-shaped reeded thumbpiece
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Height 9 7/8 in; Haut. 25,1 cm
One from the Collection of M. Bolten-van der Weele, The Hague (circa 1950);
The pair: Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam, 2012;
Where acquired
A. Berendsen, Het Nederlandse Interieur, Binnenhuis, Meubelen, Tapijten, Koper, Tin, Zilver, Glas, Porselein en Aardewerk van 1450-1820, Utrecht, 1950, p. 198, ill. 192 (one illustrated)
In the late 17th century, Japanese porcelain factories in the area of Arita developed a new style of decoration on porcelain which was typified by asymmetrical compositions in underglaze-blue, iron-red and gold. Termed ‘Imari’ after the port from which items with this decoration began their journey to the west, the new porcelain wares exported to the Netherlands were an immediate success. The earthenware producers in Delft were quick to respond to demand and began producing Imari-style decorated pieces at the turn of the seventeenth to eighteenth century, with production reaching its height in the 1720s to 1730s.
The pair of tankards in the present lot are a fine example of the combination of a conventional European form with a fashionable 'Imari' design. A silver-gilt-mounted tankard of similar form and decoration, in the Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, is illustrated by D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft Niederländische Fayence, Munich, 1984, p. 230, ill. 131. An example of baluster form with closely related Imari-style decoration was in the collection of Henry H. Arnhold, and sold at Sotheby’s New York, 24 October 2019, lot 495.
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