Four Dutch Delft polychrome pears, 18th/19th C.

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Four Dutch Delft polychrome pears, 18th/19th C. H 13 - 11 cm (the tallest and the smallest model) Ref.: - For some similar examples: Four fruit models of this type are illustrated by Van Dam, 2004, p. 173, pl. 116, who notes that these were 'small objects intended to decorate the table at any time of the year'; and twelve fruits, including some very similar pears, are illustrated by Lavino, p. 58, who on p. 81 also illustrates a collection of these fruit models hanging on the tiled walls. A wreath consisting of fifteen similar fruit models in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels, is illustrated by Helbig, Vol. 11, p. 70, fig. 57 and by De Jonge, 1965, p. 307 and De Jonge, 1970, p. 142, fig. 149.

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