Delftware vase with Chinese figures and flowers

An image of Delftware. Vase. Drie Posteleyne Astonne, Holland, Delft. The sides are decorated with eight vertical panels painted alternately with Chinese figures in gardens and landscapes or a large vase of flowers and foliage flanked by a vase of flowers on a table and flowers in a three-legged cauldron. Below there is a horizontal band of scrolls with pendant leaves, and round the shoulder a border of formal flower heads and scrolls. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, height, whole, 55 cm, diameter, base, 22 cm, circa 1685-1700. Chinese Style. Production Note: On accession by Glaisher the vase was attributed to Ghisbrecht Lambrechtz Kruyk or Cruyck, but without evidence. The GK mark is now attributed to Gerrit Pietersz Kamm the proprietor of the Drie Posteleyne Astonne between 1679 and 1700.

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Delftware. Vase. Drie Posteleyne Astonne, Holland, Delft. The sides are decorated with eight vertical panels painted alternately with Chinese figures in gardens and landscapes or a large vase of flowers and foliage flanked by a vase of flowers on a table and flowers in a three-legged cauldron. Below there is a horizontal band of scrolls with pendant leaves, and round the shoulder a border of formal flower heads and scrolls. Pale buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, height, whole, 55 cm, diameter, base, 22 cm, circa 1685-1700. Chinese Style. Production Note: On accession by Glaisher the vase was attributed to Ghisbrecht Lambrechtz Kruyk or Cruyck, but without evidence. The GK mark is now attributed to Gerrit Pietersz Kamm the proprietor of the Drie Posteleyne Astonne between 1679 and 1700.

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Accession Number: C.2498-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Katie Young
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 610.47kB
Exposure time: 1/250
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1

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17th Century blue and white Chinese Style Delftware Dutch earthenware figures Fitz_AA floral flowers glazed Orientalism thrown tin-glazed vase vases

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