Object 2010598
Dish
Provenance: Dutch (Delft)
Dating: Late 17th century / early 18th century.
Earthenware dish on a footring with
a tin-glazed base and a flattened rim, decorated in different shades of under tin-glaze blue.
In the centre decorated with a flower basket, filled with a flowering peony and chrysanthemum plants encircled by an eight pointed scalloped medallion. The interior rim is decorated with large panels filled with sunflowers and symbols and small panels filled with dots. The exterior wall is decorated with three circles and asterisks.
The dish is decorated in a way Chinese ""Kraak" porcelain of the 2nd quarter of the 17th century was decorated. It was made at the end of the 17th century, begin 18th century when Chinese originals could no longer be obtained.
For a similar decorated original Chinese "Kraak" dish see object 2010203 in the category "Ming - Wanli 1573-1620".
Dimensions:
Height: 43 mm (1.69 inch)
Diameter: 245 mm (9.65 inch)
Diameter of footring: 115 mm (4.53 inch)
Condition: A hairline to the rim, a chip to the pierced hole in the footring, a glaze firing flaw to the exterior wall and an overall rough rim.
Price: € 399 - $ 555 - £ 347
(the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate)
Delftware, or Delft pottery, denotes blue and white pottery made in and around Delft in the Netherlands and the tin-glazed pottery made in the Netherlands from the 16th century.
Delftware in the latter sense is a type of pottery in which a white glaze is applied, usually decorated with metal oxides. Delftware includes pottery objects of all descriptions such as plates, ornaments and tiles.
History, The earliest tin-glazed pottery in the Netherlands was made in Antwerp by Guido da Savino in 1512. The manufacture of painted pottery may have spread from the south to the northern Netherlands in the 1560s. It was made in Middelburg and Haarlem in the 1570s and in Amsterdam in the 1580s.Much of the finer work was produced in Delft, but simple everyday tin-glazed pottery was made in places such as Gouda, Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Dordrecht.
The main period of tin-glaze pottery in the Netherlands was 1640-1740. From about 1640 Delft potters began using personal monograms and distinctive factory marks. The Guild of St Luke, to which painters in all media had to belong, admitted ten master potters in the thirty years between 1610 and 1640 and twenty in the nine years 1651 to 1660. In 1654 a gunpowder explosion in Delft destroyed many breweries and as the brewing industry was in decline they became available to pottery makers looking for larger premises; some retained the old brewery names, making them famous throughout northern Europe, e.g. The Double Tankard, The Young Moors' Head and The Three Bells
The use of marl, a type of clay rich in calcium compounds, allowed the Dutch potters to refine their technique and to make finer items. The usual clay body of Delftware was a blend of three natural clays, one local, one from Tournai and one from the Rhineland.
From about 1615, the potters began to coat their pots completely in white tin glaze instead of covering only the painting surface and coating the rest with clear ceramic glaze. They then began to cover the tin-glaze with clear glaze, which gave depth to the fired surface and smoothness to cobalt blues, ultimately creating a good resemblance to porcelain.
During the Dutch Golde Age, the Dutch East India Company had a lively trade with the East and imported millions of pieces of Chinese porcelain in the early 17th century. The Chinese workmanship and attention to detail impressed many. Only the richest could afford the early imports. Although Dutch potters did not immediately imitate Chinese porcelain, they began to after the death of the Wanli Emperor in 1620, when the supply to Europe was interrupted Delftware inspired by Chinese originals persisted from about 1630 to the mid-18th century alongside European patterns.
By about 1700 several factories were using enamel colours and gilding over tin-glaze, requiring a third kiln firing at a lower temperature.
Delftware ranged from simple household items - plain white earthenware with little or no decoration - to fancy artwork. Most of the Delft factories made sets of jars, the kast-stel set. Pictorial plates were made in abundance, illustrated with religious motifs, native Dutch scenes with windmills and fishing boats, hunting scenes, landscapes and seascapes. Sets of plates were made with the words and music of songs; dessert was served on them and when the plates were clear the company started singing. The Delft potters also made tiles in vast numbers (estimated at eight hundred million) over a period of two hundred years; many Dutch houses still have tiles that were fixed in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Delftware became popular and was widely exported in Europe and even reached China and Japan. Chinese and Japanese potters made porcelain versions of Delftware for export to Europe.
Some regard Delftware from about 1750 onwards as artistically inferior. Caiger-Smith says that most of the later wares "were painted with clever, ephemeral decoration. Little trace of feeling or originality remained to be lamented when at the end of the eighteenth century the Delftware potteries began to go out of business." By this time Delftware potters had lost their market to British porcelain and the new white earthenware. One or two remain: the Tichelaar factory in Makkum, Friesland, founded in 1594 and De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles ("The Royal Porcelain Bottle") founded in 1653.
Source: Wikipedia
Object 2010288
Dish
Provenance: Dutch (Delft)
Dating: 2nd half 17th century,
c.1660-1680
Earthenware dish on a footring with a tin-glazed base decorated in under tin-glaze blue.
In the centre a decoration of a lion in a garden landscape. Flower scrolls replace the diaper motif as a border around the centre medallion. On the cavetto eight large and eight small panels. The small panels are decorated with Dutch flowers, most likely tulips, four large panels are filled with figure walking in a landscape near a shore, the other four large panels are filled with Dutch flowers. The exterior wall is decorated with four circles and four asterisks.
The peculiarity of this border is that it blends typical Chinese Kraak panelled
borders with a Transitional style motif.
Dimensions:
Height: 60 mm (2.36 inch)
Diameter: 397 mm (15.63 inch)
Diameter of fooring: 220 mm (8.66 inch)
Condition: A restored crack and some glaze frits around the rim.
References:
M.. Rinaldi, Kraak porcelain. A moment in history of trade, Londen 1989, p.112, Pl.110, p.220, Pl.279 and p.224, Pl.285.
D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delfts Blauw, Bussum 1975, no. 58.
Price: € 699 - $ 981 - £ 612
(the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate)
Object 2010249
Dish
Provenance: Dutch (Delft)
Dating: Late 17th century / early 18th century.
Earthenware dish on a footring with a tin-glazed base and a flattened rim, decorated in different shades of under tin-glaze blue.
Decorated with a bird sitting on a rock in a marsh landscape with flowering peonies and clouds in a centre octagonal medallion. The carvetto is decorated with six broad panels containing peaches and artemisia leaves and six smaller panels filled with tassels. The reverse is not decorated.
This dish was found, in four pieces, in the 1980's, in the ground of the Dutch city Alkmaar. The pieces were buried in the ground, which is why they have been greatly preserved.
The dish has been restored and looks probaly exactly the way it did 330 years ago, it even has two (!!) pierced holes in the footring which both are in great condition.
The dish is decorated in a way Chinese ""Kraak" porcelain of the 2nd quarter of the 17th century was decorated. It was made at the end of the 4th quarter of the 17th century, around 1700 when Chinese originals could no longer be obtained.
For a similar decorated original Chinese "Kraak" dish see item number 2010193 in the category "Sold ceramics".
Dimensions:
Height: 31 mm (1.22 inch)
Diameter: 210 mm (8.27 inch)
Diameter of footring: 115 mm (4.53 inch)
Condition: Restored out of four pieces, a 5 mm (0.20 inch) chip to the rim, a piece of glaze is missing from the interior wall and some tiny glaze frits to the rim.
Price on request.
Object 2010243
Baluster vase
Provenance: Dutch (Delft)
Dating: Late 17th century / early 18th century, the copper neck 19th century
An earthenware baluster shaped vase on a flat unglazed base, tin-glazed in different shades of under tin-glaze blue. The original neck has been cut off, in the 19th century fitted with a copper neck,
Decorated on its neck with dots that, per two, are connected, on its belly three men and a servant in a garden near a river landscape and two Long Eliza’s walking up a stair besides a fence, a bamboo tree and rocks. On the foot a decoration with ruyi heads and lotus leaves.
The decorative elements are taken from the repertoire of the Chinese Transitional Style. Porcelain in the Transitional style had been very popular in the Netherlands, after Chinese exports came to a standstill around 1647 they were imitated in Delft faience, this baluster vase is a nice and rare example of one of those imitations.
Dimensions:
Height with copper neck: 285 mm (11.22 inch)
Height without copper neck: 240 mm (9.45 inch)
Diameter belly: 230 mm (9.06 inch)
Diameter foot: 160 mm (6.30 inch)
Diameter mouth vase: 95 mm (3.74 inch)
Diameter copper neck: 115 mm (4.53 inch)
Condition: A 10 mm (0.39 inch) chip to the foot, a 45 mm (1.77 inch) chip to the base, a cut off neck and lots of tiny glaze scratches to the tin-glaze due to use during its life time.
Price: € 499 - $ 700 - £ 437
(the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate
Object 2010199
Dish
Provenance: Dutch (Delft)
Dating: 2nd half 17th century,
c.1660-1680
Earthenware dish on a footring with a tin-glazed base decorated in under tin-glaze blue.
In the centre in a double circle a figure holding a fan in a garden landscape. Flower scrolls replace the diaper motif as a border around the centre medallion. On the cavetto eight large and eight small panels. The small panels are decorated with Dutch flowers, most likely tulips, four large panels are filled with a figure sitting in a landscape near a shore, the other four large panels are filled with Dutch flowers. The exterior wall is decorated with three circles and three asterisks.
The peculiarity of this border is that it blends typical Chinese Kraak panelled borders with a Transitional style motif.
Marked on the base with a number 4.
Dimensions:
Height: 53 mm (2.08 inch)
Diameter: 350 mm (13.77 inch)
Diameter of fooring: 180 mm (7.08 inch)
Condition: Restored and several chips around the rim.
References:
M. Rinaldi, Kraak porcelain. A moment in history of trade, Londen 1989, p.220, Pl.279 and p.224, Pl. 285.
D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delfts Blauw, Bussum 1975, no. 58
Price: € 499 - $ 700 - £ 437
(the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate
Object 2010209
Dish
Dating: Late 17th / early 18th century,
c.1700
Earthenware dish on a footring with a tin-glazed base decorated in under tin-glaze blue.
In the centre a decorated with various blooming flowers in a double circle. On the interior rim six medallions in "Kraak style" filled with blooming flowers. Acutely painted. On the exterior rim seven simple flowers.
Dimensions:
Height: 45 mm (1.77 inch)
Diameter: 310 mm (12.21 inch)
Diameter of footring: 145 mm (5.71 inch)
Condition: In a unique condition for its age, very minor glaze fritting around the rim otherwise, perfect.
References:
D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delfts Blauw, Bussum 1975, no. 69.
Price: € 499 - $ 700 - £ 437
(the $ and £ prices are approximates and depend on the € price exchange rate
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