Modeled with two tiers connected by baluster stem painted with stiff leaf-tips, the rim of each bowl pierced for flowers, the bowls painted in blue and manganese in the Chinoiserie taste with figures in a landscape
7¹⁄₂ in. (19 cm.) high

Acquired from European Ceramics Consultancy (Lucy de Blaay), Netherlands, April 2014.

Frits Scholten, 'Delftse Piramides', Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereninging van vrieden van de Ceramiek, feestbundel voor Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer, 130/131, 1988/2, pp. 41-51.

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Lot Essay

The present lot was discussed by Dutch scholar Frits Scholten in a 1988 article 'Delftse Piramides' as one of only a few early examples of tiered tulip vases, demonstrating the evolution of the tulip pyramids which became wildly poplar soon thereafter (see Frits Scholten, 'Delftse Piramides', Mededelingenblad Nederlandse Vereninging van vrieden van de Ceramiek, feestbundel voor Daan Lunsingh Scheurleer, 130/131, 1988/2, pp. 41-51).