Of baluster form, painted in the Chinoiserie taste with a continuous view of robed figures in landscape, including one wearing a turban and holding a staff, two holding parasols, four seated around a low table, and one astride a horse, another horse at the ready, all below a border of eight large trefoil lappets reserved with scrolling flowering vine and alternating with pendant symmetrical foliage, the waisted lower body with a broad horizontal band of flowering branches reserved with four ogival quatrefoil landscape vignette panels, the foot with a band of elongated lappets divided by heart-shaped panels
27 in. (68.5 cm.) high

The Property of a Gentleman; Christie's, London, 27 June 2005, lot 206.

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Samuel van Eenhoorn is known for his fantastic decorations at De Grieksche A pottery. The scale of the present vase is in itself a testament to the prosperity and prestige of van Eenhoorn's work, which supplied pieces to the House of Orange. He was one of the most influential of pottery proprietors, being one of three men sent to England in 1684 to represent the Delft potteries protesting against the embargo the English had placed (in 1672) on importation of Dutch Delftware.

The rich decoration to the shoulder of the present vase appears to be related to the designs of Daniel Marot. For a vase of similar scale and decoration, see D. and R. Aronson, Dutch Delftware, The Dr. Günther Grethe Collection, Amsterdam, 2004, pp. 56-57, no. 58. Also see the similar example at the Art Institute of Chicago, reference no. 1998.515a-b; and E. Neurdenburg and B. Rackham, Old Dutch Pottery and Tiles, London, 1923, pl. XXVII, fig. 42 for an octagonal section vase of similar form, size and decoration.