Three-Piece Delft Polychrome Garniture

English Delft polychrome Delft Charger, having a parrot and other whimsical details, 18th century.

Comprising a large covered jar and a pair of Vases.

Polychrome chinoiserie bowl. Delft, 1710-1730 This polychrome bowl stands on a high foot and has three extra feet. The two angular handles are ver...

Polychrome table fountain Delft, 1750-1770 The polychrome table fountain is modelled in the form of a corpulent, seated man on a pedestal. He sits leisurely leaning back on a green pedestal with net decor with flowers. He is dressed in a blue jacket with flowers, white vest, yellow knee-breeches, white stockings and dark shoes. On his head he wears a tricorn that has an opening at the top for liquor (wine, liqueur or gin) for liquor to be poured into. The stopper is missing. There is a handle on the back, and a pewter tap in a mascaron on the front. Dimensions: height 31,5 cm / 12.40 in., width 21 cm / 8.26 in., depth 29,5 cm / 11.61 in. Provenance: G. Lefebvre, antique dealer in Paris...

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...

Dutch delftware charger, 1750-1800. The decoration is a stylised version of an oriental garden on 17th century Chinese porcelain. Dime...