€11,000
An extremely rare Dutch Delft blue and white posset pot, early 18th C.
Description:
L.: 27,5 (incl. the cover) - H.: 22 cm
Marked LVE on the base for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, the 'De Metaale Pot' workshop, Delft, 1691-1724. Signed by master painter Johannes Peridon, dating the piece between 1700 and 1710.Delftware posset pots are more commonly found in English Delftware, as the tradition of making posset was more common in Britain.
Provenance: An important Belgian private collection.
Ref.: - Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Accession no. A 3322 a-b (KN&V), for the only other recorded example. (direct link available on rm-auctions.com)
- Two other Dutch Delft posset pots are known, one in blue and manganese, previously with Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam (direct link available on rm-auctions.com) and one in the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany. Both are signed SVE for Samuel van Eenhoorn, the brother of Lambertus.
Condition:
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