Six of the nine tulip spouts supported by heads, the cartouche-shaped body modeled in relief on one side with a classical male portrait bust on a socle base, flanked by bird-form handles holding drapery in their beaks, the reverse with a recessed cartouche-shaped panel painted with a vase of flowers, the shaped socle painted with flower-heads and lappets
12³⁄₁₆ in. (31 cm.) high

With Salomon Stodel Antiquites, Amsterdam, 1981.
Property from an Important Swiss Collection; Christie's, London, 16 April 2014, lot 147.

E.D. Vandekar, An Introduction to Dutch Delftware, Exhibition Catalog, 3-14 July 1978, London, p. 19 (ill).
Salomon Stodel Antiquites, Blue Delftware, 1680-1720, 1981, no. 12.
D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft: Niederländische Fayence, Munich, 1984, p. 258, pl. 203.

An Introduction to Dutch Delftware, Earle D. Vandekar, London, 3-14 July 1978.

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An unmarked tulip vase of very similar form and decoration to the present lot is at Kingston Lacy in Wimborne Minster, Dorset (National Trust inventory no. KLA.C.27). The National Trust example, modeled with a female bust portrait, is illustrated by Marion S. Aken-Fehmers, Delfts aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, Vazen met tuiten, 300 jaar pronkstukken, Volume IV, Zwolle, 2007, p. 248, no. 9.08.