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Dutch Delftware Urn-shaped Jardinière

Dutch Delftware Urn-shaped Jardinière

Kollenburg Antiquairs BV

Northern Netherlands, ca. 1735

38 cm height x 30 cm diameter 

Original condition


An urn-shaped vase with masks on either side; not signed. The vase is decorated in blue with oakleafs. In cartouches two representations: Venus and Adonis with two dogs on one side and a Venus shell fountain with three putti on the other. The depiction of Venus and Adonis is derived from “Metamorphosis” by Ovid.


Provenance:

Dutch private collection


Literature: 

Ovidius, Metamorphosen, in de vertaling door M. d’Hane-Scheltema, Amsterdam 1997.


Price on request