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Rastatt Favorite Palace (Schloss Favorite Rastatt) is the oldest German “porcelain palace” and the only one to survive almost unchanged to this day. The enchanting Baroque summer residence and hunting palace was built from 1710 to 1727 for Margravine Sibyl Augusta of Baden-Baden. Favorite Palace was just a short carriage ride from Rastatt Residential Palace, and hosted the court for hunting, concerts and banquets.

No expense was spared on the palace interiors, which are replete with all forms of eighteenth century craftsmanship: colorful scagliola floors made from imitation marble, walls with faience tiles, ceilings adorned with plasterwork and frescoes, sumptuous embroidered tapestries and priceless furniture. To accompany the magnificent interior Sibylla Augusta amassed an unparalleled collection of Asian and European porcelain, glass and faience. Not only is it now the world’s largest collection of early Meissen porcelain, it also houses several wonderful pieces of Dutch Delftware. A pair of blue and white flower holders marked for Adrianus Kocx of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory was probably given by William and Mary to margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden in memory of their successful encounter in London in the winter of 1693/1694. This gift also featured two Delft jardinieres which are painted with the crowned WM monogram and heraldic ornaments. These magnificent gifts of Delftware probably represent their shared passion for gardening and oriental porcelain.

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D1214. Blue and White ‘Dragon’ Pattern Ovoid Jar and Cover

Delft, circa 1710

Unidentified IW mark in blue, probably for Theodorus (called Dirck) Witsenburgh, the owner of De Witte Ster (The White Star) factory from 1690 until his death in 1700, and then used presumably by his family as owners until 1705

Painted boldly around the body with four scaly dragons against a ground of entangled flowering vines continuing onto the cover, its slightly domed top with a single dragon amidst the vines.

Height: 32.6 cm. (12 13/16 in.)

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D1622. Blue and White Model of a Sleigh

Delft, circa 1750

The scroll-shaped body painted on either side with two putti and a dog amidst a profusion of blossoms issuing from scrolling leafy vines, the front with a foliate lappet issuing a cluster of three blossoms pendent from a scrolling leaf, on the back with a figure of Harlequin holding a hat in his left hand and pointing to excrement on the ground below, and on the seat with a tasseled square cushion.

Height: 10.8 cm. (4 1⁄4 in.); Length: 12.2 cm. (4 13/16 in.)

Birdcage, Tin-glazed earthenware, Dutch, Delft — Birdcage, Tin-glazed earthenware, Delft, First half 18th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 94.4.103

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is one of the world’s largest and finest museums, with over two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture.

The museum was founded in 1870 by a group of American businessmen, financiers, and leading artists and thinkers who wanted to create a museum to bring art and education to the American people. After amassing a small collection of Old Master paintings, the museum opened its first exhibition space in the Dodworth Building, a former dance academy and private residence in midtown Manhattan.

The first artworks collected by the museum were largely gifted and donated by its founders and notable collectors. Henry G. Marquand was a prominent businessman who made his fortune in real estate, banking, and railroads. He was an important financier for the museum, serving as trustee and treasurer before becoming the museum’s second president from 1889-1902. Marquand had an impressive collection of European paintings and Delftware objects that he generously gifted to the museum. His donation of Delftware makes a substantial proportion of the museum’s collection.

One of the most outstanding objects donated by Marquand is an extremely rare bird cage, donated in 1894. Another museum highlight, acquired in 1994, is a magnificent tulip vase that measures 72.4 cm high. It is marked for Adrianus Kocx, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1686 to 1701, and was designed by Daniel Marot, the architect of the Dutch stadtholder William of Orange and his wife Princess Mary Stuart.

Interior Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

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D8226. Blue and White Shaped Oval Plaque

Delft, circa 1745

Painted after Geertruydt Roghman with an interior scene of two ladies seated and sewing beneath a draped window, at their feet a sleeping cat, a yardstick, scissors and a basket of cloth, to the right a tea table set wih a teapot, a bowl and two cups and saucers near a kettle on the hearth with plates lining the chimney piece above, the self-frame decorated with a blue-ground border of blossoms, leaves and scrolls interrupted at the top, bottom and sides with panels of beribboned leaves, and the drapery at the top pierced with two suspension holes; the reverse glazed.

Height: 37.6 cm. (14 13/16 in.)

Provenance:
The Property of a Lady, sold at Sotheby’s, London, May 14, 1963, lot 68;
The Collection of the Late Count and Countess Guy du Boisrouvray, sold at Sotheby’s, New York, October 28, 1989, lot 277;
The G. Ephis Collection, France

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D8231. Blue and White Oval Plaque

Amsterdam, circa 1740

Painted with a fashionable lady between a man playing a violin from a musical score, and a gesticulating lady holding another score, all seated at a cloth-covered table set with a wine glass and bottle on a tray, behind them a draped wall supporting a colonnade before a classical building beyond, the self-frame with an inner border of blossoms and scrolling foliage, and an outer border washed in blue; the reverse unglazed.

Length: 49.2 cm. (19 3/8 in.)

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D530. Polychrome and Gilded Oval Brush Back

Delft, circa 1730

Painted with a lady wearing a plumed hat and a décolleté robe, seated before her dressing table beneath a swagged drapery, an open toiletry box beside her right hand within a gilt-edged roundel surrounded by foliate devices, scrollwork and panels patterned with trellis diaperwork or dots, the top of the rim pierced with two suspension holes, and the unglazed underside pierced with holes for the bristles.

Length: 14.1 cm. (5 9/16 in.)

Antique Delftware flower vases at Aronson Antiquairs

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•D1799. Pair of Blue and White Bowl and Cover Flower Vases

Delft, circa 1695

Each marked AK in blue for Adrianus Kocx, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1686 to 1701

Each bowl of scalloped and barbed quatrefoil shape, affixed at the ends with blue open-mouthed dragon or phoenix head handles, the lobes painted on the front and reverse with a pheasant perched among peonies, foliate and rock work, a bird perched on a flowering branch and on the ends with a bird perched on rock work amidst foliage, the barbs with a blue ground reserved with floral sprays, the conformingly-shaped domed foot similarly decorated beneath a band of floral scrollwork motifs around the ankle, repeated on the rim above a molded half-round band; the low domed cover rim with a blue-ground border of floral scrollwork interrupted by eight gu-form spouts decorated on the front with a stylized floral motif and on the reverse with four dots, the center with a trellis diaper work reserved with four blue-edged oval panels with a budding plant encircling a hexafoil bottle-shaped vase decorated with blue ground lappets with floral scrollwork, and issuing from each of the six lobes a slightly aring cylindrical spout painted on the front with a budding plant, and again at the reverse with four dots, the knotted neck of the central bottle with floral sprigs.

Heights: 29.2 and 29.5 cm. (11.5 and 11.6 in.)

Provenance: A Dutch Noble Collection

There are approximately fifteen known single bowl- shaped vases that resemble the present pair, of which seven are in museums, the others are in private collections. The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (inv. no. C. 2607 & A-1928), the British Museum in London (inv. no. 1891.0905.27), the Victoria & Albert Museum in London (inv. no. 3843 & A-1901), the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (inv. no. 10315), the Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire in Brussels (inv. no. 602 a-b), Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam (inv. no. A 2807a-b), and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (inv. no. BK-NM-133313) all have a single bowl-shaped flower vase. Interestingly, the present pair of bowl-shaped flower vases is only one of four pairs that are known to exist. There is one pair in the collection of the Uměleckoprůmyslové Muzeum (Museum of Decorative Arts) in Prague (inv. no. UPM 70.678ab & UPM 76.968ab), another pair in the collection of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague (inv. no. 0401074) and the third pair is in the collection of Mnichovo Hradištĕ in the Central Bohemian Region in the Czech Republic (inv. no. MH 10897/10900). Characteristically, as is the case with so many Dutch Delftware objects, these flower vases were probably produced and sold in pairs.

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D1160. Polychrome Fluted Oval Barber’s Bowl

Delft or Schiedam, circa 1765

Painted in iron-red, yellow, manganese, green and blue in the center with bamboo, peonies and other flowering plants growing around a pierced rock in a fenced garden within three floral sprays alternating with three winged insects on the irregularly fluted rim, its lower edge with a neck notch, and its left side with an oval depression for the shaving ball, the foot rim pierced with two holes for suspension.

Length: 27 cm. (10 5/8 in.)

Albrecht von Wallenstein, Portrait by Sir Anthony Van Dyck, 1629; in the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich

The baroque castle of Mnichovo Hradiště in Czech Republic has a long and storied past. In 1621, Václav Budovec, the founder of the castle, was executed for his role in the Czech revolt against the emperor. The domain was then offered to Albrecht von Wallenstein, the imperial military commander of the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand II as a reward for his service in the army. The property remained in the noble family until 1946, the date of its nationalization.

This vast estate includes a French garden, stables that are located on the two wings, and a small baroque theatre. After having visited the private apartments, the music room and the pinacoteca, we arrive in one of the most beautiful rooms of the castle: the dining room. Displayed throughout the room is an impressive collection of blue and white Delftware objects. European noble families were influenced by Queen Mary II, who had a passion for Delftware. The beautiful tulip vases, garnitures and plates that decorate every surface of the room were probably ordered by the family of Albrecht von Wallenstein.

One highlight is a pair of flower vases marked AK for Adrianus Kocx, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1686 to 1701. De Griekche A was the Delftware supplier of the Dutch court, as well as many European noble families such as the Von Wallensteins.