Salomon Stodel Antiquités

29/04/2023

It’s spring! 🌷

Look at these gorgeous pair of tulip vases. In general the tulip vase can be characterised as a vase which has several little spouts into which flowers can be stuck. Around 1700 these vases were very popular.

This model appears to have evolved by combining four loose narrow vases, and adding a fifth spout in the centre. At least two such vases were part of the collection of Queen Mary, as is known from the discovery of fragments of ‘twee platte bloemflesjes’ (‘two flat flower vases’) in her ‘keldertje’ at Het Loo.

In her recent essay in the Koninklijk Blauw exhibition catalogue, Kristin Duysters gives further credence to the old notion of dealers and collectors that such vases were especially intended for tulips.

Pair of tulip vases
Marked: PAK, for Pieter Adriaensz Kocks.
Provenance: Delft, factory ‘De Griekse A’ (‘The Greek A’).
Period: 1701-1720
Height: 29 cm, width: 33 cm, base width: 14,4 cm, base depth: 9,3 cm.

09/04/2023

Happy Easter 🐣

Enjoy the Easter brunch! Here you see a silver platter, a tin platter and a cute butter dish in the shape of a chicken. The tin platter is inspired by the silver platter. It is a common misconception that tin is a 'poor man's silver'. This is only partly true: rich people did use tin, but as a utensil! Why don’t we appreciate tin as much as silver?

Butter dish, in the shape of a chicken. Polychrome decoration.
Provenance: Delft.
Dating: ca. 1760-1780.
Dimensions: height: 9.5 x 12.5 x 8 cm.

Sugar bowl. Also called ‘Konfektschale’
Provenance: Germany, Münster.
Master: Hermann, Heinrich Osthues.
Dating 1760-1770.
Weight: 293 grams.
Dimensions: 16 x 14 x 12 cm.

28/09/2022

Three massive seventeenth mortars. The oldest one is by Everhardus Splinter Enckhusae dated 1630. Height: 32.5 cm. Diam. 41 cm. The second mortar is by Gerrit Schimmel Daventriae 1672. Height: 33.2 cm. Diam: 42 cm. The third mortar; the largest in size is by Gillis Wybrans Amsterdam 1696. Wybrans was intermediate merchant who commissioned this imposing mortar from Schimmel. The Deventer coat of arms is proudly displayed on one of the sides. These mortars are decorated with several borders with Renaissance ornaments and boar hunting scenes ( after prints by Tempesta ). The condition and patina of those three mortars are excellent. .

28/09/2022

Stodel Dutch Renaissance 1650 dated cupboard ‘ Polderkast’. . . .

28/09/2022

‘ Noord Nederlandse Renaissancekast 1650 ‘. Oak cupboard dated 1650. Height: 216 cm x 172 x 72 cm. So called ‘ wagenschot ‘. Sculpted with lobate, rollwork, and other Renaissance ornaments. The three figures representing: Love ( in the middle) flanked by Hope and Faith. On the carved panels on the doors resp. Justitia, Prudentia and Fortitudo and Temperantia. ( the Seven Virtues in total). These are in cartouche shaped shields with lobate ‘ kwab’ ornaments. On the hood, water elements with sea creatures, often seen on North Netherlandish tiles made between 1600 and 1630 particularly in Rotterdam. This important piece of Dutch Renaissance Furniture was the highlight of the many art treasures collected by the in Hoorn based art collector and art historian Mr John de Visser ( 1916-2007). He inherited this piece of furniture from his parents. John de Visser lived at Binnenluiendijk Hoorn, a house from 1624 meticulously restored by himself and after his death bequeathed to the Hendrick de Keyser Foundation. This cupboard was not a ‘ bridal cabinet’ but most probably made for a representative space of a ‘ Waterschapshuis’ somewhere in North Holland (Westerkwartier) in which a polder- board had their frequent meetings. The symbolism on this cabinet relates in particular to good and reliable administrative qualities. Almost all the Renaissance cupboard with a date in combination with a municipal coat of arms are ‘ waterschapslasten’. This example leaves nothing to be desired.

01/09/2022

carved and giltwood table in auricular style Dutch around 1660-1675. Dutch Delftware from the 17 th. Century and early 18 th. century ( tulipvases) # furniture
# auricular style. # antiqueslovers

07/03/2022

CABINET on STAND so called: “Luiermandkastje”

Dutch, circa 1670-1685. Oak veneered with rosewood and walnut. Height: 170 cm x 113 cm x 50 cm. See: Frederik Muller & Cie, 2-5 May, 1922, lot 429 with Illustration. There are at least two pieces of furniture known, which have the attributes that have to do with the birth of a child, such as, crib, cradle, stove, porridge bowl, diaper pliers, and a p**p chair. *1 They are in general terms, furniture of a somewhat smaller size. This is an example of such a small cross-foot cabinet with a rather prominent overlapping top. The furniture is veneered with the beautiful sacerdaen or rosewood, which after 1700, due to export problems, was hardly used as a veneer anymore. The cabinet is placed on a table-shaped base with twisted legs, which became very popular with the large-format cross-foot cabinets, especially around 1700. The carving of the festoons (tendrils), a striking example from the classical design that we also often find in architecture. It represents a variety of fruits and flowers, hung on a bow with a nail, a reference to vigour and prosperity to a piece of furniture intended for storing children's clothes. The carving in low relief is made of walnut.

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27/12/2021

14/12/2021

14/10/2020

A folder from 1984! A large number of the pieces featured in this folder are now part of the exhibition Royal Blue .nl Den Haag. Amazing to see these pieces in a public exhibition almost 45 years later.

08/10/2020

THE HAGUE, 1754.

By J. van Merken.

View of the Korte Vijverberg with the Mautitshuis and ‘Het Torentje ‘ and the Sebastiaansdoelen which is now the Municipal Historical Museum The Hague.

Signed and dated lower right: J. van Merken 1754.

Oil on canvas: 50 x 67 cm.

Provenance on request.

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