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Fruit in Polychrome Dutch Delft Earthenware - Apple

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Name: Fruit in Polychrome Dutch Delft Earthenware - Apple
Measurements: Height: 9 cm, Width: 12 cm, Depth: 6 cm
Reference: VNAA112623
Techniques: Modeled
Colors: Green, Beige, Brown, Yellow

Categories: Decorative Arts Decorative Objects Other Decorative Objects
Materials: Dutch Delft Earthenware
Periods: 18th Century Antique 18e eeuw
Origins: The Netherlands
Origin and period: Delft, Nederland

Description

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.