(Q33988)

The upper sphere with a blue ground and pear-shaped pierced finial above a larger sphere decorated with a stippled band above a trellis diaper border issuing demi- chrysanthemum blossoms and interrupted by four shells, one pierced with a small coin slot, and all pendent with foliate-scroll devices; the largest sphere inscribed on the front Johanna vander Sanden above a longer pierced coin slot and painted with a gentleman handing a similar money bank to a lady standing behind a gate in a landscape with distant cottages and evergreen trees above scrollwork issuing floral sprays trailing toward the reverse beneath the date 17 5/1 74 below a stippled band of demi-flowerheads repeated around the ankle, and the ogee-domed foot with a stippled and striped border pendent with demi-flowerheads and foliate scrolls and interrupted with small and large blossoms. (Engels)

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