A rare polychrome Dutch Delft jewellery box with cover, 18th C.

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This lot was sold on 2016-10-01 and is no longer available
Marked GVS for Geertruij Verstelle, the "Het Oude Moriaanshooft" workshop, Delft, 1761 - 1773.

Dim.: 30 x 20,5 x 11,5 cm

Provenance: Aronson, 2009, Dutch Delftware including selections from a distinguished Manhattan collector, p. 120, nr. 80.
Condition:
- The cover with two restored breaks.
- The box with a restored rim chip on the back left top corner.

See also:
- A manganese example with floral pattern and marked for the "De Witte Starre" factory, is illustrated in The Lavino Collection, page 65.
- A polychrome example with a pastoral scene, also marked GVS is illustrated in C.H. de Jonge, Delfts aardewerk, Rotterdam/’s-Gravenhage 1965 (Oud Delft 5), p. 134, ill. 140.
- A blue and white box with a floral pattern, marked LPK for the De Lampetkan workshop, is in the collection of the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels (inv. no. Ev. 622 A-B), illustrated in Hudig 1929, p. 225, ill. 165.
- Another blue and white box, marked DSK for the De Dubbelde Schenkkan (The Double Ewer) Factory, in the Musée National de Céramique, Sèvres (inv. no. Cl 7473), is illustrated in Lahaussois 1998, p. 179, no. 167

Price incl. premium: € 15.300,00