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One of a pair of 'sample' plates
Dutch (Delft)
about 1750-75
Medium/Technique
Tin-glazed earthenware, yellow ground
Dimensions
Diameter: 22.7 and 22.4 cm (8 15/16 and 8 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Horace Wood Brock
Accession Number2013.1735.2
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsCeramics – Pottery – Earthenware
DescriptionYellow ground, painted in blue with a central five-piece garniture of landscape-decorated vases beneath a similarly decorated chamberpot between a pair of teapots, and above a two-handled jardiniere between a pair of cuspidors, the rim reserved with five oval panels depicting a Chinese boy standing, running, or seated and holding a bird.
InscriptionsGold ahesive label on back of .2: "Aronson Antiquairs of Amsterdam / Since 1881 / www.Aronson.nl"
A second adhesive label is undicipherable, possibly over the factory mark?
A second adhesive label is undicipherable, possibly over the factory mark?
ProvenanceSold by Dr. Günther Grethe, Hamburg, to Aronson Antiquairs (dealer), Amsterdam; 2004, sold by Aronson to Horace Wood Brock, New York; 2013, gift of Horace Wood Brock to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 18, 2013)