Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.We\u2019ve got Mary II to thank for the tulipiere trend. In the late 17th century, the English queen, who briefly ruled alongside her Dutch-born husband William III, developed a penchant for the multi-tiered, multi-spouted \u201cpyramids for flowers\u201d that emerged from Delft in the 17th century. She commissioned three pairs, each a towering baroque confection decorated in Delftware\u2019s signature blue and white, which now reside at Hampton Court Palace. The owners of grand English country houses swiftly followed suit.\u00a0Historically, they would have been used to display any kind of cut flowersToday, the tulipiere is enjoying new popularity. \u201cFantastic examples have been seen in the homes of designers Benedict Foley and Luke Edward Hall and magazine editor Hamish Bowles,\u201d says Brett Tryner, director at Cheffins Fine Art Auctioneers. Martha Stewart has also extolled their tablescaping potential, he notes. The current exhibition at Chatsworth, The Gorgeous Nothings: Flowers at Chatsworth (until 5\u00a0October), features 12\u00a0Delft tulipieres, ranging in height from 30cm to more than a metre tall. \u201cWe think they were ordered by\u00a0the first Duke of Devonshire; they were made by The Greek A [De Grieksche A] factory \u2013 the same one that Queen Mary II ordered hers from,\u201d notes Katherine Hardwick-Kulpa, assistant curator at the house. And while designers, including Canadian ceramicist Malory Tate and East Anglia-based Ali Hewson, have been making contemporary versions, the antique styles are increasingly sought-after, selling for upwards of five figures.\u00a0These feats of craftsmanship display a curious conglomeration of influences. The multi-spouted form dates back to 12th-century Middle Eastern pottery, while the distinctive \u201cpagoda\u201d shape, as well as many of the blue-and-white motifs, come from China, with modelled figures such as lions and mermaids, dragons and salamanders propping up or ornamenting the layers. The name \u201ctulipiere\u201d, however, is something of a misnomer. \u201cThey weren\u2019t designed for the cultivation of tulips,\u201d says Hardwick-Kulpa. \u201cPeople associate tulips and the Tulipmania of the early 17th century with Holland, but historically these vases would have been used\u00a0to display any kind of cut flowers.\u201d\u00a0In terms of collecting, \u201cheight is everything\u201d, says Richard Hird, vice president of European ceramics and glass at Sotheby\u2019s. The largest known example, created by the famed Delft factory De Witte Ster (The White Star), which measures 178cm, is in the Louvre collection. A pair at the V&A measures 160cm apiece. When Sotheby\u2019s offered a\u00a0pair of 153cm-tall examples in 2019, they\u00a0sold for \u20ac1,032,500, more than four times their estimate and still the auction record for Dutch Delft.\u00a0Elaborate forms are also desirable. \u201cThe\u00a0tulipiere is the most iconic piece of Delftware,\u201d says Robert Aronson, the fifth-generation owner of Amsterdam-based Aronson Antiquairs. A c1690 De Grieksche A pyramidal vase that he brought to the Tefaf Maastricht art fair last year featured allegorical figures, and fantastical open-mouthed creatures formed the spouts. Once part of Sir Cecil Beaton\u2019s collection, it sold for \u201cwell into the six-figure range\u201d and is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art. At Tefaf in March, Aronson showed \u201ca relatively small one, standing at a height of 54.4cm but still in the iconic pyramid shape, and marked with an asterisk for the De Witte Ster factory\u201d, priced at \u20ac100,000.\u00a0The Delft production of pyramid pieces was short-lived; by c1710, the potteries had stopped turning out the vases. \u201cWe would consider ourselves lucky if we had one or two good Dutch Delft examples a year,\u201d says Hird. He highlights two lots in a single New York sale last year: a scalloped bowl-shaped vase from De Grieksche A factory and a pretty pair with a heart-shaped base from De Metaale Pot (The Metal Pot) factory. Both sold for $45,600. At Christie\u2019s last year, a pair of 20cm-high, 18th-century heart-shaped vases, also from De Metaale Pot, went for $40,320.\u00a0A more accessible option can be 18th- and 19th-century appropriations. \u201cThere are examples in French faience,\u201d says Matilda Burn, head of European ceramics and glass at Christie\u2019s. In 2021, Cheffins offered a 19th-century version by Florentine pottery Cantagalli, consigned from the Bath townhouse of a private collector. \u201cDespite having two spouts missing and losses to the\u00a0legs of the vase, it sold for \u00a31,100,\u201d says\u00a0Tryner. At Swedish auction house Bukowskis, specialist Cecilia Nordstr\u00f6m highlights Chinese Qing-dynasty vases, including one decorated with four clawed dragons that fetched SKr9,440 (about \u00a3703).\u00a0English 19th-century takes are yet more\u00a0scaled-back: fan-shaped quintal vases (with five spouts) were made in numerous guises, from colourful Minton majolica to\u00a0restrained creamware. A c1810-1825 pearlware pair handpainted with flowers at Yorkshire\u2019s Don Pottery is priced at \u00a31,850 with English pottery dealer John Howard.\u00a0Collectors include \u201cceramics connoisseurs but also people who are just drawn to their visual beauty\u201d, says Hird. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those rare objects that transcends the traditional collecting categories.\u201d For Massachusetts-based collectors Jim and Janet Laverdiere, it was a late-17th-century Delft tulipiere they sought to complement their antiques in the William and Mary style.\u00a0The one they bought from Aronson Antiquairs is now displayed on a c1700-1710\u00a0carved-wood Hadley Massachusetts chest. As to whether this 400-year-old piece\u00a0can still be used to display flowers, Aronson advises against pouring water directly into the separate sections; insert plastic containers first. A prosaic tip for a most poetic\u00a0display.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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