THREE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND MANGANESE VASES |

each painted in Chinese 'transitional' style with continuous scenes of figures in landscapes, comprising a baluster vase with tall trumpet neck; an octagonal double gourd vase, blue cross mark; and a pear-shaped example painted with an additional figure of a soldier, manganese SVE mark for Samuel van Eenhoorn, owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1678-1685, over numeral 3,

Each vase is in good appearance and generally good condition. The double-gourd vase with rim chips and some glaze chips at corners of foot. The baluster vase with similar nibble chips at rims and a small footrim chip. The pear-shaped vase with spray to the top of the rim which extends approximately 2cm. down.
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A vase with similar high trumpet neck and of a similar height, marked for Samuel van Eenhoorn, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, inv. 14 344, published by Henri-Pierre Fourest, Delftware, Faience Production at Delft, London, 1980, pp. 34-35, no. 16. The unusual form of the vase is similar to a slightly larger vase also in the Rijksmuseum, published Jan Daniël van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch delftware 1620-1850, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 75, pl. 33.