Antique Delft Vases Polychrome Covered Baluster Vases With Foo Cats Hand Painted - a Pair

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A pair antique Delft vases - Covered Delftware Urns.
Tall decorative covered baluster vases on an octagonal foot.
The ovoid … Read more A pair antique Delft vases - Covered Delftware Urns.
Tall decorative covered baluster vases on an octagonal foot.
The ovoid body with four elongated panels painted in blue, iron-red and green with different scenes of exotic bird perched on flowering branches beside rock work and flowering shrubbery within a flowering border, on top a foo Cat finial.
The vases are made in the 18th century Dutch Delftware style
Origin The Netherlands, Delft second half 19th century
Condition: good, minor wear which can be considered as normal on Delftware
Style: Baroque
Color: Polychrome



Delftware or Delft pottery is also known as Delft Blue.
Delftware includes pottery objects of all descriptions such figurines, plates, vases and other ornamental forms and tiles.
The start of the Delft style was around 1600.
the most highly regarded period of production is about 1640–1740. Delftware continues to be produced.
Arround 1640 Delft potters began using personal monograms and distinctive factory marks.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries Delftware was a major industry, exporting all over Europe See less