Purple and Yellow Majolica Charger with a Beggar the Netherlands, 1675-1700

Dish with fruit in purple and yellow The Netherlands, 1660-1700. The dish has a spreading, slightly raised flange and is painted in purple and yellow with a fruit decor of grapes ...

Large blue and white chinoiserie dish. The Netherlands, 1675-1700. The blue and white dish has a wide-spreading flange and is painted in the centre with a sitting Chinese figure i...

Polychrome dish with a village view. The Netherlands, 1700-1750 The dish has a spreading, slightly raised rim and is painted in blue, purple, yellow and green with a simplified vil...

Polychrome dish with a village view The Netherlands, 1675-1725. The dish has a spreading, slightly raised flange and is painted in blue, purple and yellow with a simplified villag...

Blue and white dish with a putto. The Netherlands, 1660-1700 The blue and white dish has a wide, spreading flange, and is painted in the centre with a walking, flute-playing putt...

Lobed dish with purple and yellow chinoiserie landscape Delft, 1680-1700 Dimensions: diameter 22 cm / 8.66 in. The lobed dish is composed of ...

Mid to late 1700's pair of sizable and polychrome painted Dutch chargers. Even if you were to spent every day of the rest of your life searching, you would not find another pair of these rare Dutch chargers. These chargers are extra rare, because: 1. They ARE a pair. 2. There is a lot of yellow in them and that was always the most difficult color to master/create. On the back of one of them you can see a beautiful, 19th century restauration with a large amount of metal staples. Somewhere around 1900 these wonderful antiques were put in a metal wall brackets for safe and easy wall mounting. As you can see in our images, there is much wear and there are several damages and that is why we have priced this rare, colorful and highly decorative pair of antique chargers...

Decorated with a chinoiserie scene of a man sitting on rocks within a landscape. Surrounded by a triple-circle center and an interlocking arc and trefoil border. The rim with 27 flut...

Two large French Faience dishes and two smaller from the city of Strasbourg in hand painted floral decoration. They are approximately from around...

This set of eight blue and white Delft chargers was made at De Vergulde Bloempot and De Klaaw in the Netherlands between 1780 and 1820. They feature the gorgeous "Peacock" pattern, o...

A large Danish (or Northern German) faience charger from circa 1780 in blue and white flower decor. The decoration is inspired by, or actually exact copies of the contemporary Chinese Qianlong dynasty porcelain that came to Europe during the "Florissant Period", second half of the 18th century. This 1750-1790 period was dominated a "blooming" inter-connected maritime trade between Hong Kong, China and Western Europe, with the Danes, Dutch, English and Swedes being the main merchant participants. Because the Chinese kept their unique porcelain recipe a deadly secret, the faience factories of Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden etc. decided to simply copy the Chinese decorations, this large charger being a fine example of the workmanship and tradition. An interesting fact, that in the early 1700 hundreds, the German Meissen Porcelain factory was the first to crack the secret Chinese porcelain manufacturing process, so Meissen enforced the death penalty...

Swiss charger-shaped faience plaque depicting a lakeside chateau Swiss, late 19th century Measures: Frame: Depth 7cm, diameter 50cm Plaque: Depth 4cm...