Important Paintings, Furniture, Silver and Ceramics
Live Auction, 8 October 2009
Part I - Ceramics
Lot Estimate
ZAR 5 000 - 7 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 11 710
About this Item
Delft, The Netherlands
A Dutch Delft tobacco jar, de Drie Klokken, 19th century
ovoid, painted with a seated Red Indian smoking a long clay pipe beside a jar inscribed 'ST:OMER', with further vessels on the other side, one inscribed 'VOC', chips, 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