Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Double Gourd Vase as Lamp Base - 1977. SOLD

The 17th century style tin glazed earthenware ribbed Double-Gourd Vase / Bottle painted in shades of blue with flowering peonies on the ovoid body, the baluster upper section en suite with flowering leaves and a band of stiff leaves around the rim. Altered as lamp base.
Model: Japanees Fles geribd.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & CW  = 1977
Painter’s initials: JH = J.H. Ten Hacken
Employment dates: 1940 - 1984

Height:  38 /  68 cm. (15 / 26,8 inches.)
Diam. lampshade 34 cm.   
Weight: 2.303 grams.