A rare Dutch Delft blue and white ewer, circa 1691-1721. Photo Sotheby's

by Lambertus van Eenhoorn, of baroque helmet form with high blue-ground flat-scroll handle, the basally fluted body painted with ribboned flower swags and foliate strapwork below a blue-ground border of flowering cherry, the domed foot with a formal foliate strapwork border, the interior with a small clump of water plants below a further scroll border, LVE mark over letters for Lambertus van Eenhoorn owner of De Metale Pot factory, minor damage; 30cm., 11 6/8 in. high. Estimation 2,000 — 3,000 GBP

Provenance: The Stodel collection (paper label to base)

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