A pewter-mounted Dutch Delft blue and white money-box, third quarter 18th century, of Campana vase form, painted with a continuous landscape with figures including figures performing acrobatics, possibly from the Commedia dell’Arte, the domed top similarly decorated below a striped knop finial and with a foliate mount with a coin slot, the domed foot with precious objects and edged with a mount tooled with meandering foliage, 18.5cm high Note: Money-boxes are a rare survival, partly because they were difficult to make and they were probably only originally made in small quantities, and partly because so many were broken when their owners were trying to retrieve the contents. A money-box of circa 1770-80 of similar form is illustrated and discussed by Robert Aronson and Suzanne Lambooy, Dutch Delftware, Facing East: Oriental Sources for Dutch Delftware Chinoiserie Figures, Amsterdam, 2010, p. 140. A pewter-mounted Dutch Delft blue and white money-box, third quarter 18th century, of Campana vase form, painted with a continuous landscape with figures including figures performing acrobatics, possibly from the Commedia dell’Arte, the domed top similarly decorated below a striped knop finial and with a foliate mount with a coin slot, the domed foot with precious objects and edged with a mount tooled with meandering foliage, 18.5cm high Note: Money-boxes are a rare survival, partly because they were difficult to make and they were probably only originally made in small quantities, and partly because so many were broken when their owners were trying to retrieve the contents. A money-box of circa 1770-80 of similar form is illustrated and discussed by Robert Aronson and Suzanne Lambooy, Dutch Delftware, Facing East: Oriental Sources for Dutch Delftware Chinoiserie Figures, Amsterdam, 2010, p. 140.