A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BIRD-FORM BUTTER DISH AND A COVER
A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BIRD-FORM BUTTER DISH AND A COVER
A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BIRD-FORM BUTTER DISH AND A COVER
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A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BIRD-FORM BUTTER DISH AND A COVER

THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BLUE ITD/12/106 MARK FOR JAN THEUNIS DEXTRA AT DE GRIEKSCHE A, THE COVER WITH BLUE 7, THE DISH WITH BLUE 8

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A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME BIRD-FORM BUTTER DISH AND A COVER
THIRD QUARTER 18TH CENTURY, BLUE ITD/12⁄106 MARK FOR JAN THEUNIS DEXTRA AT DE GRIEKSCHE A, THE COVER WITH BLUE 7, THE DISH WITH BLUE 8
The cover modeled as a nesting green plover with blue, green and manganese feathers, the base as a jumble of green grasses
6 in. (15.2 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 5 June 1990, lot 235.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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Two pairs of similarly modeled butter dishes were sold at Christie's, Amsterdam, 5 May 2004, lot 106, and from the Anton Philips Collection, Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 November 2007, lot 4. For another pair of similarly modeled dishes also by Jan Theunis Dextra, see H.P. Fourest, Delftware, New York, 1980, no. 158.

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