• D506. Blue and White Bottle Jug

Delft, circa 1680

Marked LC in blue for Lambertus Cleffius, the owner of De Metale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory from 1670 until 1691

The teardrop-shaped body painted on the front with a songbird in flight and another perched on a blade of grass above an exotic bird standing on a pierced rock amidst flowering plants, and on the reverse with a flowering chrysanthemum plant beneath the vine-decorated loop handle, the neck with a blossom and foliate devices above a stylized demi-ruyi-head border; mounted with a contempo- rary hinged pewter cover with the unidentified mark of a crowned rose with the caster’s initials D.P within the crown.

Height: Height: 21.8 cm. (8 1/2 in.); Overall: 24.6 cm. (9 11/16 in.)