D2456. Blue and White Garniture

Marked IVDuijn on the base for Johannes van Duijn, the owner of De Porceleyne Schotel (The Porcelain Dish) factory from 1764 to 1772, or his widow Van Duijn-van Kampen, the owner of the factory from 1772 to 1773.

Comprising three baluster-form vases and a pair of beaker vases and covers, each piece octagonal and painted in blue on the front with a Chinese landscape and a crane standing on the waterfront, surrounded by a large peony and a willow, all within a rococo cartouche, decorated with flowers, the sides with flowering branches and the reverse decorated with a stylized ribbon, three covers decorated with a similar decoration as the body and surmounted with bagpipe players, sitting on a blue dotted stool and playing a blue dotted bagpipe and the two other covers crowned with sitting hen with stylized feathers.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 39 cm. and 43 cm. (15.4 and 16.9 in.)

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
A similar set with a slightly different design is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam with inventory number BK-NM-8048-A and B. Garniture sets of different decoration, but the same model bagpipers on top of the covers are known to be made by ‘De Lampetkan’ (The Ewer), as evidenced by a set auctioned at Sotheby’s on May 15, 1979. A set of octagonal covered beaker vases, decorated in the same theme, topped with standing cockerels, marked Jan Gaal, owner of De Twee Scheepjes (The Two Ships) factory from 1707 until 1725, or his widow Gaal-van der Plank from 1725 through 1727, from the collection van Tilborg in Pretoria, SA is illustrated in Boyazoglu 1980, p. 55. Part of a similar IVDuijn marked garniture set with number 562/1962, with a different design in the octagonal vase, but the same model with cover with a knob shaped as a sitting hen, is housed in the collection of Design Museum Denmark, depicted in Ulla Houkjær, Tin-glazed Earthenware from the Netherlands, France and Germany 1600-1800, Design Museum Denmark, 2016, p.13.2

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