A LARGE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE APOTHECARY JAR WITH COVER, decorated with a large Laub und Bandelwerk cartouche inscribed S VIOLAR above a winged cherub's head with suspending swags, surmounted by a fruitbasket on a grotesque head, flanked by two peacocks, the shoulders and base with a large border of scrolling foliage, the copper cover with baluster finial (the neck repaired), circa 1690

细节

A LARGE DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE APOTHECARY JAR WITH COVER, decorated with a large Laub und Bandelwerk cartouche inscribed S VIOLAR above a winged cherub's head with suspending swags, surmounted by a fruitbasket on a grotesque head, flanked by two peacocks, the shoulders and base with a large border of scrolling foliage, the copper cover with baluster finial (the neck repaired), circa 1690
circa 37.5 cm high

See illustration

来源

Collection Dr. van Hengel, Arnhem, Sale Mak van Waay, Februari 3,
1948

出版

D.A. Wittop Koning, Delftse Apothekerspotten, p. 48, for a discussion about this jar.

拍品专文

C.f R.E.A. Drey, Apothecary jars, p. 125, plate 64D for a bottle with similar decoration, dated 1690.

S Violar for syrup of violets, petals, leaves and seeds used.