A MASSIVE ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL AND TIERED COVER
1708, PROBABLY LONDON
A MASSIVE ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL AND TIERED COVER 1708, PROBABLY LONDON In four sections, the bowl's interior painted with Bacchus astride a barrel and garlanded with grapes within an border of luxriant vine, the exterior painted in the manner of Antonio Tempesta with a hunting scene with equestrian figures and with a stag being brought down by hounds before a building with two domed bell-towers in a continuous wooded landscape, on a stepped domed foot with bands of scroll, flowerhead and loop-ornament, the first domed cover with a band of flowerheads surrounded by a moulded coronet with jewels and a serrated rim surmounted by a smaller coronet cover with a campana-shaped bowl and cover forming the finial, the interior of the small bowl with the initials E.B./1708 25¼ in. (64 cm.) high (4)
A MASSIVE ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL AND TIERED COVER
1708, PROBABLY LONDON
A MASSIVE ENGLISH DELFT DATED BLUE AND WHITE WASSAIL BOWL AND TIERED COVER 1708, PROBABLY LONDON In four sections, the bowl's interior painted with Bacchus astride a barrel and garlanded with grapes within an border of luxriant vine, the exterior painted in the manner of Antonio Tempesta with a hunting scene with equestrian figures and with a stag being brought down by hounds before a building with two domed bell-towers in a continuous wooded landscape, on a stepped domed foot with bands of scroll, flowerhead and loop-ornament, the first domed cover with a band of flowerheads surrounded by a moulded coronet with jewels and a serrated rim surmounted by a smaller coronet cover with a campana-shaped bowl and cover forming the finial, the interior of the small bowl with the initials E.B./1708 25¼ in. (64 cm.) high (4)
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