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Blue and White Rectangular Plaque

Delft, circa 1670-80

Painted in hues of soft blue with a gentleman wearing a plumed hat, holding a long rifle and conversing with a lady seated on a horse near another lady seated on the ground at his feet, to the left a donkey observing a peasant or traveler seated beneath a tree and drinking from a jug, and to the right two fishermen hauling their nets before a distant cottage in a hilly landscape; the reverse unglazed.

Size: 27.2 x 37 cm. (10 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.)

Provenance: The Collection of Jhr. J.W. Six van Vromade, sold at auction by Niekerk and Schlüter, Amsterdam, October 18, 1932, lot 217, and according to the pencil annotation in the margin of the catalogue, acquired for ƒ200,- by M. Huisman & Zn, Antiquairs,The Hague;

A Czech Private Collection, through 2008.

Exhibited: Arnhem, the Gemeentemuseum (Historisch Museum, Arnhem), on loan before 1932, the dates unknown

Note:

The source of this plaque is the print ‘Riverbank with Fishermen Hauling in the Nets’ (fig. 1) by Johannes Visscher (1633-after 1692), which is the first in a series of four landscapes, the first state of which is dated 1670.1 Visscher made the print after a drawing in reverse by Nicolaes Berchem (1621/22-1683) dating to circa 1665 to 1668.2 In her 1997 dissertation on Berchem drawings, Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem, 1620-1683 : die Zeichnungen, p. 261 (II), the author Annemarie Stefes-Lincke remarks that although the class difference between the elegant city gentry and the simple country folk in this print is evident, Berchem also attains an unobtrusive differentiation between the social strata of the two ladies, separating them only by footwear: the fine lady on horseback wearing elegant shoes in contrast to the bare feet of the seated shepherdess.

1 Hollstein XLI (1992), p. 81, no. 113.

2 Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, inv. no. PD.142-1963. Illustrated by Stefes-Lincke 1997, II, pp. 261-262, III, no. III/53.

Blue and White Large Tulip Vase

Delft, circa 1720

Unmarked but attributed to De Witte Ster (The White Star) Factory

Formed in three sections: the largest comprising the tall baluster-form body, its eight baluster-shaped tulip nozzles decorated with ruyi-head and foliate motifs and rising from a floral-patterned blue-ground lappet border above two rows of petal-shaped panels painted alternately with vases of flowers and on the upper row flowering plants growing around a pierced rock, or on the bottom row floral sprays, some with perched birds, all above flowering vine, floral lappet, demi-ruyi-head and foliate- scroll borders on the lower body, knopped ankle and bell-shaped domed base; the small circular mid section forming a ruyi-head- and petal-bordered receptacle and collar for the upper section, a smaller version of the tall vase below, similarly decorated with one row of five petal-shaped panels of flower-filled vases or floral sprays beneath five tulip nozzles issuing from a blue-ground floral lappet border and encircling a trumpet-shaped neck decorated with blossoms and foliate scrolls below an everted rim with a flowering vine border.

Height: 63.5 cm. (25 in.)

Provenance: Aronson Antiquairs Amsterdam, 1995; A distinghuished Manhattan collector