Provenance
A Belgian private collection.
The albarello inscribed 'TAMARIND' with a label for Duveen, Liverpool. Lord Duveen of Millbank began his career in his father's antiques business, Duveen Brothers, in Hull. He transformed the business, specialising in the acquisition and sale of Old Master pictures, with galleries in London, Paris and New York. A great benefactor to museums in Britain, Duveen donated pictures to the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery among others, and financed building schemes including an extension for the National Portrait Gallery and a gallery for the Parthenon Sculptures at the British Museum.
Description
The albarello inscribed 'TAMARIND' with an IP mark for Jan Pennis, the De Porceleyne Schotel workshop, Delft, 1724-1764.
Two large blue and white Dutch Delft albarelli and a wet drug jar
18th C.
H.: 29,1 cm
the tallest albarello
H.: 28,4 cm
the smallest albarello
H.: 23 cm
the wet drug jar
Estimation
€ 600 – € 1.200
Provenance
A Belgian private collection.
The albarello inscribed 'TAMARIND' with a label for Duveen, Liverpool. Lord Duveen of Millbank began his career in his father's antiques business, Duveen Brothers, in Hull. He transformed the business, specialising in the acquisition and sale of Old Master pictures, with galleries in London, Paris and New York. A great benefactor to museums in Britain, Duveen donated pictures to the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery among others, and financed building schemes including an extension for the National Portrait Gallery and a gallery for the Parthenon Sculptures at the British Museum.
