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Late 17th-Century German Faience Buckelplatte, Frankfurt or Hanau A blue and white German faience Buckelplatte (a lobed charger with raised, scalloped sections) dating from the late...

18th-Century Dutch Delft Blue and White Dish with Grapevine An 18th-century Dutch Delftware dish painted in cobalt blue with three prominent bunches of grapes growing from a stylise...

A pair of 18th-century Dutch Delftware plates in blue and white tin-glazed earthenware. Each plate depicts a gallant garden scene with an elegantly dressed couple and a small dog sea...

Dutch Delft dish by De Blompot workshop, painted in cobalt blue monochrome enamel with the “Theeboom” or “Tea Plant” pattern. The central decoration features a dense floral bouquet, ...

This antique eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware wall plaque is made of tin-glazed earthenware, also known as Delft faience. The shaped ceramic plaque is painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese. Its raised, self-framing border is outlined in blue and decorated with continuous scrolling ornament against a green ground. The centre is painted with an elaborate symmetrical fantasy ornament composed of three winged masks, volutes, foliage, shell motifs and scale-patterned fields. The central mask supports a two-handled vase filled with flowers, with a bird in flight above the bouquet. The plaque is pierced at the top for suspension and was made specifically for wall display. The composition belongs to the broader tradition of French-inspired grotesque ornament that circulated in the Dutch Republic through prints by designers such as Jean Bérain and Daniel Marot. By the mid-eighteenth century, Delft painters had adapted this ornamental vocabulary freely, combining masks, scrolls and fantastical forms into highly decorative compositions. Delftware wall plaques held a distinct place within eighteenth-century Dutch interiors. In contemporary household inventories, they were sometimes recorded as porceleine schilderijen, or “porcelain paintings”, reflecting their function as ceramic counterparts to paintings on panel, canvas or copper. During the eighteenth century, Delft potters increasingly produced plaques in moulds with shaped outlines and raised borders, creating complete, self-framed decorative objects. With its unusual grotesque decoration, strong polychrome palette and pronounced shaped border, this antique Delft plaque...

Polychrome Delftware Wall Plaque with Bird and Flower Basket Delft, circa 1750 This antique eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware wall plaque is made of tin-glazed earthenware and painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese. The lozenge-shaped plaque has a raised, self-framing border and is pierced at the top with two holes for suspension. The centre is painted with an exotic bird perched among flowering branches rising from a rectangular basket. The flowers and foliage are enclosed within a shaped cartouche outlined in yellow and green scrollwork. Large stylised flower heads interrupt the surrounding blue diaper-patterned ground, while the outer border is decorated with continuous scrolling ornament in blue, yellow and iron-red. The combination of an exotic bird, abundant flowers and geometric patterning reflects the continuing influence of Chinese and Japanese porcelain on mid-eighteenth-century Delftware. Delft painters did not simply reproduce Asian designs, but combined individual motifs with European cartouches, scrollwork and shaped borders to create new decorative compositions. Wall plaques of this type were produced specifically for display. In contemporary household inventories they were sometimes described as porceleine schilderijen, or “porcelain paintings”, reflecting their role as ceramic counterparts to framed paintings. By the eighteenth century, Delft potters increasingly formed plaques in moulds with pronounced outlines and integrated decorative borders, creating complete, self-framed objects for the interior. With its strong polychrome palette, lively bird and flower decoration and compact 26 cm format, this shaped Delft plaque...

A Dutch Delft blue and white charger with chinoiserie decor of birds and insects, dating to circa 1720-1740. The central field is painted in cobalt blue with a bird beside flowering...

Hispano-Moresque Lustreware Charger with a “Pardalot” Bird Manises, late 17th or early 18th century Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated in copper lustre with a large central bird surr...

Hispano-Moresque Lustreware Charger with a “Pardalot” Bird Manises, late 17th or early 18th century Tin-glazed earthenware, decorated in copper lustre with a large central bird surr...

Blue and White Arita Porcelain Charger in the Kraak Style Japan, Edo period, circa 1680 A Japanese Arita porcelain charger painted in underglaze cobalt blue. The central medallion d...

Japanese Arita Blue and White Kraak-Style Pomegranate Dish, Edo Period, c. 1680 A large Japanese Arita blue and white porcelain dish, dating from the late seventeenth century, Edo p...

Antique Delftware 18th century garniture 'kaststel', comprising a baluster-form vase and cover and a pair of beaker vases. Each piece is of hexagonal form and decorated in underglaz...