D2539. Blue and White Flower Vase

Delft, circa 1710

Marked LVE, numeral 5 and letters G and X in blue for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, the owner of De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory from 1691 until 1721, or his widow Margaretha Teckmann from 1721 to 1724

The spade-shaped body painted on the front and reverse with a rooster among a profusion of flowering branches and scattered blossoms, leaf sprigs and three-dot clusters, the sides with S-scroll handles decorated with continuous scrolls, the knopped and flaring rectangular foot with rose sprigs and demi-chrysanthemum blossoms and leaves above a border of 3-devices, and the top issuing five flaring spouts decorated with leafy vines.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 20.9 cm. (8.2 in.)

PROVENANCE
The Kitty Valkier-Schreurs Collection, Belgium;
Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam

LITERATURE
Described and illustrated in Aronson 2011, pp. 46-47, no. 27

SIMILAR EXAMPLES
A similar vase with “parsley” decoration, marked for De Dubbelde Schenkkan (The Double Jug) factory, is in the Lavino Collection, illustrated in Lavino, p. 105 (upper left); an example painted with Flora is illustrated ibid., p. 119 (right); and a pair of polychrome vases of similar shape but decorated with a chinoiserie landscape is also illustrated ibid., p. 125. A blue and white vase painted with a lady seated beside a tea table, and marked LVE for Lambertus van Eenhoorn, in the collection of the Kunstmuseum, The Hague (inv. no. 1002593), is illustrated in Van Aken-Fehmers 2007, p. 217, no. 7.12. Another blue and white example painted with a putto among stylized flowers and marked LVE, in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. no. BK-NM-2574), is illustrated in Hudig 1929, p. 208, ill. 200; and in Van Aken- Fehmers 2007, p. 218, no. 7.13.