Dish Charger Lobed Delft German Blue White Fluted Chinoiserie

Beautiful, early stylised decoration evoking the striking simplicity of early Chinoiserie painting Painted with a central floral spray within a circle centre, surrounded by a trai...

Delightful, charming chinoiserie dish conveying the European interpretation of and fascination with exotic Chinese plants and landscape. Decorated with a large willow tree and st...

Charming chinoiserie landscape scene depicting the European interpretation of pastoral life in China and the exotic landscape. Rim-to-rim decoration with a chinoiserie scene of a ...

Unusual decoration blending European and Chinoiserie styles. Decorated with a chinoiserie scene of a soldier crossing a bridge with European houses on either side with Chinese plants...

A rare early example of European chinoiserie decoration showing how minimal the decoration was similar to abstraction. Painted with a chinoiserie landscape scene with a fence and ga...

Charming delft dish demonstrating how exotic the East appeared to Europe and a sense of wonder it portrayed. Unusually painted in the 'Wanli' style demonstrating the mania in Europe...

Blue and white chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1650-1680 Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty-seven double lobes. The cur...

Blue and white chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1650-1680 Dimensions: diameter 33,5 cm / 13.18 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty-s...

Blue and white chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1680-1700 Dimensions: diameter 35 cm / 13.77 in. The blue and white lobed dish is composed of nine wide lobes around a nine-fold c...

Blue and yellow chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1680-1700 Dimensions: diameter 33,2 cm / 13.07 in. The blue and yellow lobed dish is c...

Polychrome chinoiserie lobed dish. Delft, 1680-1690 The lobed dish is composed of nine wide lobes around a nine-fold centre and is painted with a chinoiserie decor in purple, yellow and green. Two Chinese figures in an eastern landscape are depicted in the centre, one of them carries a banner. The landscape is framed within lines and a white band. The border is decorated with a continuous landscape with two reclining and two standing Chinese figures. A lobed dish of the same shape and design in purple, blue and green is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts holds a variant in blue and yellow. In the same museum are three lobed dishes, each with twenty-seven double lobes with chinoiserie landscapes in the same colour scheme of purple, yellow and green. In the second half of the seventeenth century many lobed dishes were painted with Chinese motifs, mostly landscapes with Chinese figures. The vast majority are in blue. Two- or multi-coloured chinoiserie decorations were very fashionable during a short period of time, predominantly in the 1680s. In addition to lobed dishes, they also appear on wine jugs, beer mugs, butter pots, covered spiced-wine bowls and dishes. Some of this Delftware is still wrongly attributed to a factory in the German town of Frankfurt, and sometimes it is even considered to be English. An excavated chinoiserie butter pot in purple, green and yellow, found in a cesspit in the grounds of the Porcelain Bottle factory, proves otherwise. A beer mug with the portrait of the Dutch prince Willem III...

Chinoiserie lobed dish in blue and purple. Delft, circa 1680 Dimensions: diameter 34,5 cm / 13.58 in. The lobed dish is composed of nine, wide lobes and is painted in the centre...