Decorator, Les Collections, Celebres, D'Oeuvres D'Art, Pots A Biere, Vase A Boire, Bouteille De Chasse, Musee du Lourve, Donation Sauvageot, Plate 21, 1864

Date: 1864

Engraver: Delatre

Published by Goupil and Co, Editors, in Paris

Paper Size: 445 x 305mm

Print Size: 225 x 155mm

Condition: Good

Technique: Copperplate Engraving

Price: $150

Description: 

1. BEER POT.

Flemish sandstone from the 17th century. Natural clay enameled in blue, & with a pewter handle & neck, this vase is formed of two hollow circles which, placed in opposite directions, divide it into four equal ribs. The ornamentation of the circle placed under the handle & the neck consists of heads of satyrs, arabesques & flowers; that of the opposite circle, of two superimposed and oblong medallions representing, one, a woman is seen from the front and in Flemish costume, having near her head the year 16-02; the other a horseman. Over his head. the monogram W E. V B. At the lower junction point of the two circles, & under an ornament in the form of an escutcheon, is the second vintage 1589.

2. BEER POT.

Flemish sandstone, brown paste, from the 16th century. On the pane, seven medallions represent dance scenes after Aldegrever. Below, the Flemish legend: GERHET DV: MVS: DAPER BLASENSO DANSSEN DI BVREN AL WEREN SI RASEN FRS VF SPEAK: BASTOR ICH VER DANS DI: KAP MIT. (Gérard, you must breathe valiantly. - Thus dance the peasants, as if they were enraged. - Come on, brother, said the priest, I will dance at the patronal feast.) At the bottom of the second medallion, the year 1598, & on the sixth the monogram K. R.

3. DRINKING VASE.

Flemish sandstone from the 16th century. Yellowish paste entirely enameled in blue. If the shape of this vase authorizes us to consider it as a drinking glass, it seems that such is not its use in Flanders, because in the catalog of late M. Jean d'Huyvette de Gand (n° 101), it is referred to as the "book- shaped bouquetier." »

4. HUNTING BOTTLE.

15th-century French earthenware. Entirely covered with turquoise blue enamel, this bottle, in the shape of a gourd, is surrounded on its four sides by plain, flat pewter bands. On the middle of each of the faces is a medallion of a man, in open- work pewter, standing out against the blue enamel background. The foot, the chain & the screw cap are in pewter.