Fruit in Polychrome Dutch Delft Earthenware - Apple

Fruit in Polychrome Dutch Delft Earthenware - Apple

Offered by Van Nie Antiquairs




Naturalistically colored and modeled resting on or suspended beneath a spray of manganese-veined leaves shaded in green and issuing from a manganese stem.


Similar exvamples: Four fruit models of this type are illustrated by Van Dam, 2004, p. 173, pl. 116, who comments that these were "small items to decorate the table at any time of year;" and twelve fruits, including several very similar apples and pears, are illustrated by Lavino, P: 58, who on p. 81 also illustrates a collection of these fruit models hung against tiled walls. A garland composed of fifteen similar fruit models in the Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, is illustrated by Helbig, Vol. 11, p. 70, fig. 57; and by De Jonge, 1965, p. 307, pI. 194, and De Jonge, 1970, p. 142, ill. 149.

Origin
Delft, Nederland
Material
Dutch Delft Earthenware
Reference
112-623
Sizes
9 x 12 x 6 cm

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Van Nie Antiquairs

Oenselsestraat 50
5301 EP Zaltbommel
The Netherlands

+31 653353290
http://www.vannieantiquairs.com

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