Tulip vases, c.1694 (tin-glazed earthenware)

From the Cumberland Bedchamber, Hampton Court Palace The forms and ornaments of these and similar vases are distinctly playful; the six tiers of a hexagonal pyramid at Williamsburg, for example, rest on the backs of snails. A pyramid vase of this general design and bearing the mark of Adriaen Kocks is at Chatsworth House; a pair of square examples painted in the base with architectural capricci, and another pair of the same shape with allegorical figures, are at Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire. Delft vases which formerly belonged to William and Mary survive in other collections, the most important being an orange-tree pot at Erddig in Clwyd which bears the royal arms and cypher.