The exterior finely painted with barrel making scenes to the front and brick makers to the reverse, above a wide floral band, flanked by strap handles painted with floral scrollwork and raised on three short feet, the interior painted with a large bird above the date 1717, the underside with painted 9/18 over the initials PVS / WVS and the date 1717
12 in. (30.4 cm.) wide, overall

Van Nie Antiquairs, Zaltbommel, The Netherlands.
Acquired from European Ceramics Consultancy (Lucy de Blaay), Netherlands, December 2010.

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Another cream-bowl of this form but with a simple landscape to its exterior is in the collection of Sèvres, Manufacture et musée nationaux, inventory no. MNC19156. Also compare the ‘Tuitpot’ illustrated in M.S. Van Aken-Fehmers et. al., Delfts aardewerk, Geschiendenis van een national product, Zwolle, 1999, p. 242, no. 84 and the example in a private collection illustrated in in J. Boyazoglu and L. de Neuville, Les Faiences de Delft, Paris, 1980, no. 60.