• D1360. Blue and White Rococo Hot Water Kettle, Cover, Stand and Covered Spirit Burner

Delft, circa 1765

The kettle marked GVS for Geertruij Verstelle, the owner of Het Oude Moriaanshooft (The Old Moor’s Head) Factory from 1761 to 1769

The pear-shaped pot spirally fluted and painted with fashionable couples in a landscape with distant buildings, playing a lute, and on the other the gentleman holding a shepherd’s houlette and dancing with his sweetheart; the covers of the pot and spirit burner painted leaves encircling the tulip blossom knop and the heat aperture, the burner bowl with larger sprigs on the front and reverse and four small foliate sprigs on either side; and the stand molded around the upper ring with leaves echoing those on the pot rim, and raised on three S-scroll legs supporting the central burner ring and terminating in pad feet.

Height of kettle: 23.5 cm. (9 1/4 in.); height overall: 33.3 cm. (13 1/8 in.)

Provenance:
The collection of Dorothy Eugenia Miner (1908-73), Medievalist and Curator of Manuscripts at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland;
The collection of Jeroen P. M. Hartgers, Haarlem/ Antwerp

Literature: Illustrated and discussed in Aronson, Dutch Delftware, Amsterdam 2013, pp. 104-107, no. 60.

Similar kettles are known, a.o. one (without burner) in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, another in the V&A museum, London.

For more information on Geertruy Verstelle, see our article Leading Ladies

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