Dutch Delftware Urn-shaped Jardinière, ca. 1735

Dutch Delftware Urn-shaped Jardinière

Dealer
Kollenburg Antiquairs BV
Price
€ 13.500 ($ 17 745.75 U.S. dollars)
Status
Available
Period
ca. 1735
Material
Delftware


Description

An urn-shaped vase with masks on either side; not signed.

The vase is decorated in blue with oakleafs. In cartouches two representations: Venus and Adonis with two dogs on one side and a Venus shell fountain with three putti on the other. The depiction of Venus and Adonis is derived from “Metamorphosis” by Ovid.

Literature: Ovidius, Metamorphosen, in de vertaling door M. d’Hane-Scheltema, Amsterdam 1997. Eric M. Moormann en Wilfried Uitterhoeve, De klassieke mythologie in de kunst, van Achilles tot Zeus, Nijmegen 1995.


Dimensions

Height
38.00 cm / 15 in
Diameter
30.00 cm / 12 in

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