D2509. Large Blue and White Ovoid Chinoiserie Jar and Cover

Delft, circa 1670
Painted on the ovoid body with Asian figures at various pursuits in landscape settings within three quatrefoil panels separated by sprays of plantain leaves on a blue ground, the shoulder and lower body with scrollwork borders and the neck with a dentil border, the domed cover with four quatrefoil panels separated by foliage encircling a ball-shaped knop.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 52.4 cm. (20.6 in.)

PROVENANCE
The Kitty Valkier-Schreurs Collection, Belgium;
Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam;
Günther Grete Collection, 2004

LITERATURE
Described and illustrated in Aronson 2004, p. 12, no. 6

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
A smaller covered vase (30 cm. [11.8 in.] high) with a similar decoration housed in the Schlossmuseum der Stadt Aschaffenburg (inv. no. F 310), is illustrated in Bauer 1988, p. 83.