Delft and Faience

This elegant antique faience planter was created in Holland, circa 1880. Round in shape with bowed movement, the cachepot stands on small shell...

Large Dutch Delft cabinet plate - Delftware plate Material: Delft, earthenware , pottery, tin glaze Design: De Lampetkan Producer: De Lampetkan also known as De Porceleyne Lampetk...

A superb antique 18th-century Dutch Delft faience floral plate. This lovely plate has hand painted flowers, a butterfly, and foliate border in cobalt blue and white. It would be wond...

This important antique vase was crafted in France, circa 1780. Octagonal in shape with gadrooned body style and a tall neck, the elegant potiche features a hand painted medallion dep...

17th - 18th century Dutch Delft Tiles Oak framed blue and white tiles. Depicting mermaids and seacreatures Design: In the manner of Royal Delft, AK Dutch Delftware Style, Antique, Baroque, Louis XIV, 17th century / 18th century Description: a set of 4 Dutch Delft blue and white tiles oak framed . A painting on Delft Tiles composed 6 tiles. It is fully handpaited and depicting seacreatures. All tiles are framed in oak. Colors: Camaieu blue...

This is a good example of a mid-18th century Delft charger in a chinoiserie hand-painted pattern. The pottery is hand-painted in a traditional blue and white chinoiserie scene featur...

A gorgeous antique 18th-century Dutch Delft faience floral plate. This lovely plate has a hand painted flower pot center with decorative border...

Hand-painted set of blue and white delft porcelain. Three covered vases and two trumpet vases. The lids depict perched birds. The vases ...

A lovely antique 18th-Century Dutch Delft Chinoiserie hand painted floral plate in vibrant cobalt blue and white. It would look fabulous displa...

This exquisite blue and white Delft five-piece garniture from mid-18th century Holland, circa 1760, is a masterpiece. The hand-painted panels on the front and back of each jar are de...

17th - 18th century Dutch Delft Tiles - set of 4 Oak framed blue and white tiles. Depicting seacreatures, sea monster, fish Design: In the manner of Royal Delft, AK Dutch Delftware Style, Antique, Baroque, Louis XIV, 17th century / 18th century Description: a set of 4 Dutch Delft blue and white tiles oak framed . A painting on Delft Tiles composed 6 tiles. It is fully handpaited and depicting seacreatures. All tiles are framed in oak. Colors: Camaieu blue...

Blue and white chinoiserie altar vase. Delft, circa 1685 The ovoid altar vase stands on a high-waisted foot. The flaring cylindrical neck ends in an outward sloping mouth rim. The two blue coloured lion-shaped handles have suspending rings in their jaws. The body is painted with a continuous oriental landscape with banana and pine trees, Chinese figures and houses, while the neck is painted with three bands of different ornaments. The mouth rim is decorated with rectangular ornaments, the foot with leaves under a band around the ankle. Altar vases are also called vases à chimères. The oldest faience examples were made in the sixteen-twenties in Nevers, France and are attributed to the Conrade potters family, who originated from Italy. The shape is based on metal vases used during the services in Catholic churches. Therefore it is no wonder that many altar vases are painted with the Christogram IHS. Altar vases were made in Delft from about 1675 onwards and production continued well into the eighteenth century. Marked examples are known from multiple manufacturers, such as The Greek A and The Moor’s Head potteries (Aronson 2011, pp. 14-15). A pair of eighteenth century vases was made between 1700 and 1716 at The Three Porcelain Ash Barrells pottery. They are marked with PK for the owner Pieter Kam or, after 1705, by his widow (Blazy & Boyazoglu 1983, p. 110). The pair is painted with a dense parsley decor. A miniature example was excavated from a cesspit in the grounds of the former Porcelain Bottle pottery in Delft. At the same location a larger fragment was also found, decorated with a triple-tulip design in blue and yellow (Eliëns, Schledorn, Van Aken-Fehmers, pp. 31 , 36, 45). Three altar vases with similar tulip and flower decoration in blue and yellow are in the collection of the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem and can also be attributed to the Porcelain Bottle pottery (Klein, p. 152). Official Catholic services were not allowed in the seventeenth century in the Dutch republic, however Catholic conventicles were tolerated. At first sight it might be surprising that a Catholic object...