Details
In the Chinoiserie taste, the oviform body painted to the sides with two dignitaries seated among in gardens, the front with a Laub und Bandelwerk escutcheon inscribed with potter's craft marks with imbricated numerals and lettering, the neck and handle with foliate motifs, the heart-shaped terraced silver cover incised I H S, connected with a shaped thumbpiece to the handle
912 in. (24 cm.) high, overall
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 2 May 2006, lot 36.
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Compare the ewer with similar Chinoiserie scenes and decoration to the neck illustrated in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, Niederländische Fayence, München, 1984, p. 64, tafel VIII.

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