Important South African Art, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 26 September 2011
Furniture, Silver, Ceramics and Paintings Day Sale
Lot Estimate
ZAR 4 000 - 6 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 10 539
About this Item
Delft, The Netherlands
A Dutch Delft blue and white snuff jar, de Drie Klokken, 19th century ovoid, painted with a seated Red Indian smoking a long clay pipe beside a jar inscribed 'St:Domingo', flanked by sailing ships to one side and containers to the other, one inscribed 'VOC', chips, underglaze-blue painted factory mark, 25,5cm high
Literature
cf. C.S. Woodward, Oriental Ceramics at the Cape of Good Hope 1652-1795, Cape Town, 1974, p 104, pl 130, where a similar example is illustrated
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