A rare and important blue and white Dutch Delft two-part tulip vase, late 17th C.

H.: 29,5 cm

Marked AK on the base for Adrianus Kocx, the 'De Grieksche A' workshop, Delft, 1687-1701.

Provenance:
- An important Belgian private collection. 
- Acquired from Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in 2010. (See catalogue scan and text below)

Ref.:
- Christie's, Amsterdam, May 2, 2006, lot 64, for a similar example. (sold EUR 98.400) (link)

Blue and White Flower Bowl and Cover with Spouts
Delft, circa 1690-1700
Marked AK in blue for Adrianus Kocx, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) Factory from 1687 to 1701.
The lobed and barbed quatrefoil bowl painted on either side with a pair of birds flying or perched on a rock amidst. Chinese flowering plants, on the ends with flowering branches flanking the ploenix-head handles, and on the barbed panels with floral diaperwork, the conformingly shaped foot with flowering shrubbery on the lobes and foliate scrolls on the barbed panels, and the cover with eight lotus sprigged gu-forın spouts interrupting the foliate-scroll-patterned ground below a domed center patterned with trellis diaperwork and supporting a texafoil bottle-shaped vase issuing six tubular spouts painted with floral sprigs and alternating with lozenge-shaped panels of lotus or other blossoms and leaves, the swelling neck with six perdant foliate motifs.
Height: 29 cm. (11 3/8 in.); length 27 cm. (10 5/8 in.)
In the 2007 publication Vases with Spouts. Three Centuries of Splendour of the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Marion van Aicen-Fehmers-has identified fourteen examples of this shape (annex 2, pp. 304-305) and illustrates a pair from the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, along with another pair from the Umeleckoprumyslove Museum, Prague, and single examples from the Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; and the Centraal Museum, Utrecht (pp. 150-154, cat. nos. 3.03-3.08). All of the known flower vases of this shape are marked for Adrianus Kocx except for one that is marked for Lambertus van Eenhourn of De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) Factory (1691-1724), in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, illustrated by Hudig 1929, p. 13. Two are illustrated in Aronson 2004, p. 76, no. 89; and Aronson 2009, p. 23, fig. 3 (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). The present vase is a new addition to this small and imporiani group
A previously unknown vase with spouts, formed of three tiers of elaborate covered howls, with a total height of 73.7 cm. (29 in.), acquired for the King's Dining Rooom at Drayton House in Northamptonshire, where it descended in the Stopford-Sackville family, is illustrated in Arenson 2009. pp. 20-24, no. 10

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(UV-checked)
The lid:
- The top/middle section of the lid was broken off and restored, with the break retouched and the top rim of the central nozzle also retouched.
- One of the six nozzles in the middle section has been restored, another has a restored chip, while the others remain in very good condition.
- In the lower section, three out of eight nozzles have been restored, while the others have some restored chips and small touch-ups. The outer bottom rim has some touch-ups.
The base:
-Some touch-ups along the rims, and one corner of the foot has been restored.

Estimate: € 25000 - € 50000