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Rare Dutch Delft blue and white flask by Adrianus Kocks.
Circa 1690-1701.
Decorated with a pair of perching birds and another beneath them amongst flowering garlands, all beneath a band of twisting Chinese dragons.
With four rope twist moulded handles and a lion mask at either side. The base with an underglaze-blue AK mark for Adrianous Kocks of De Grieksche A factory.
Height: 12in., 31.4cm.
Provenance: From the Gustav Leonhardt collection, property from the Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. Leonhardt (1928-2012) was a Dutch harpsichordist, organist and conductor who was a pioneer in the world of period instrument performance and research into Baroque performance styles. Bartolottie House is a seventeenth century canal residence on the Herengracht.
Condition report
one handle broken and re-stuck, slight rubbing to lion masksStock number
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