Polychrome Figural Wine Cistern

Polychrome Figural Wine Cistern

Each month, we highlight a special object from the Aronson Antiquairs collection. As October ushers in the wine season, our attention turns to an exceptional 1754 dated wine cistern, intriguingly inscribed ‘Bordiau,’ most likely a reference to Bordeaux wine.

Marked P:V:M 12 : ST in blue for Petrus van Marum, the owner of De Romeyn (The Roman) factory from 1754 to 1764

Modeled as a gentleman wearing a blue hat decorated with green leaves and yellow flowers crowning his curly blue hair, a blue coat with yellow buttons paired with green, yellow breeches and manganese shoes, his right hand holding a yellow goblet, and his left a manganese bottle, and seated astride a green, manganese and yellow barrel, its front pierced for the tap with 1754 and written Bordiaú probably for Bordeaux, supported on an arched base painted with floral scrollwork in blue, red, green and yellow.

Delft, circa 1754

Dimensions: Height: 34.8 cm (13.7 in.)

PROVENANCE
French Private Collection, Paris, 2023 (Provenance+)

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
Two similar model cisterns of different hight, of which one is also dated 1754, are depicted in Aronson 2000-2001, ill 33.

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