A large Dutch Delft blue and white vase, late seventeenth century. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's

of inverted baluster form, painted in manganese and blue with a procession of figures and mythical Chinese animals through a Transitional-style mountainous landscape, within elaborate floral and masked lappet borders - 55.5cm. 21 ¾in. high

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE TIM CLARKE

Provenance: Paper label of E. Allain, 66 Rue la Boetie, Paris

Exhibition: British Museum London, Albrecht Dürer and his Legacy, The Graphic Work of a Renaissance Artist, 2002, exhibition catalogue, no. 251

Bibliography: Tim Clarke, The Rhinocerous, from Dürer to Stubbs, 1515-1799, 1986, pp. 96, 99, col. pl. xvi

Notes: Though unsigned, this fine pot is likely to have been made either at the 'Greek A' factory under Samuel van Eenhoorn, or at the 'Moor's Head' under Rochus Hoppesteyn; for comparable wares, see H-P Fourest, Delftware, 1980, no. 29 (Eenhoorn) and 36-37 (Hoppesteyn).

Another vase with many similar painting characteristics, unsigned but dated 1678, is illustrated by M. S. van Aken-Fehmerset.al., Delfts aardewerk, Den Haag 1999, no. 82.

Sotheby's. Collections, Londres, 27 oct. 2015, 10:30 AM