A rare Dutch Delft blue and white ater cistern and cover, circa 1750-1760. Photo Sotheby's

by Jan Pennis, of rectangular form with two chamfered corners and a rounded shoulder, painted in blue with landscape cartouches against diaper and foliate panels, with a glazed pierced hole for hanging and a metal tap, the cover with a large portrait bust finial, IP mark in underglaze-blue for Jan Pennis owner of De Porceleyne Schotel (The Porcelain dish) factory, cover restored. Quantité: 2; 45.2cm., 17 6/8 in. high. Estimation 4,000 — 6,000 GBP

A cistern of this form decorated with similar diaper and foliate grounds, but reserving cartouches of Chinese figures is in the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, illustrated by Ferrand W. Hudig, Delfter Fayence, 1929, pl. 237.

Sotheby's. The Gustav Leonhardt Collection, Property from the Bartolotti House, Amsterdam. London | 29 avr. 2014 - www.sotheby's.com