D2535. Blue and White Ewer

Delft, circa 1700

Marked LVE 3 CB and a crossed circle in blue for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, owner of the Metaale Pot (Metal Pot) from 1691-1721, or his widow Margaretha Teckmann until 1724

The spirally writhen body and horizontally ribbed neck painted with a profusion of floral sprays and foliate sprigs between ruyi-head borders around the neck, shoulder and circular foot, the braided handle with a forked terminal.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 27.3 cm. (10.7 in.)

PROVENANCE
The Peter Van Slyke Collection, U.S.A.;
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Amsterdam, 3 October 2006, lot 248;
Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam, 2004;
The Dr. Günter Grethe Collection, Hamburg

LITERATURE
Described and illustrated in Aronson 2004, p. 45, no. 45

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
This floral decoration enjoyed a certain popularity at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and appears on a variety of wares produced by De Metaale Pot, including a pilgrim bottle illustrated by Van Aken-Fehmers 1999, pp. 163 and 181, no. 64; by De Jonge 1965, p. 149, ill. 79, and in De Jonge 1970, p. 52, ill. 47; and by Lunsingh Scheurleer 1984, p. 210, no. 81. A large covered jar in this pattern is illustrated by De Jonge 1970, p. 53, ill. 48; and Helbig, Vol. I, p. 57, fig. 30; and a five-piece garniture of vases is illustrated by Morley-Fletcher and McIlroy 1984, p. 223, no. 11.