Delft Delft and Faience

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...

Early 19th century Delftware plate with polychrome decoration of cartouche depicting a oriental landscape, adorned and surrounded by flowers with foliate scrolls in yellow, blue, gre...

Hand-painted in blue and white at the Three Bells Factory in the Netherlands circa 1830–1840, this complete five-piece Dutch Delft garniture is decorated in deep cobalt blue with son...

A rare pair of vintage Dutch Delft faience dragon candlesticks in cobalt blue and white, circa 1930. Marked "Delft" on reverse. They display beautifully, hand painted in the form of ...

Dutch Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware dish, raised on a foot ring, with a circular, gently rising wall and a sloping lobed (accollade-shaped) rim. Painted in underglaze ...

A rare early 18th century Dutch Delftware barbers dish (scheerkom), decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with stylized floral motifs. In the center of the round well is an ablooming f...

Great 18th century hand painted Dutch delft chinoiserie decorated platter. 13.25” diameter. Hole drilled for wall mounting.

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...

Dutch Delft blue and white tin-glazed earthenware posset pot and cover, late 18th c., having lid with rounded finial, over tapered body with dual arched handles, decorated with peaco...

Dutch Delftware blue and white models of slippers or shoes. Patterned with hand-painted flowers, the heel washed in manganese. In the 18th century, miniature ceramic shoes were a di...

This pair of Delftware recumbent cow figurines, dating to the late 18th century, exemplifies the Dutch tradition of molded earthenware crafted in the city of Delft. They are cast 'af...

Good pair of 18th century Dutch Delft Blue dishes decorated with a beautiful central flower arrangement of a tulip and a peony and foliage. The borders richly adorned with foliage sc...

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...

Group of 5 small Dutch Delft polychrome 'Peacock' plates, De Klaauw factory, second half 18th century. These polychrome Delft plates, are fine ...

Set of 18th century Delft plate. Six from a series. One bowl of different form.

Rare early 18th century Blue Delftware platter with Chinese kraak style decoration of a duck in a marsh landscape with peonies and clouds in a centre hexagonal medallion. On the side...

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...

Dutch Delft Chinoiserie plate with a 'Mille Fleurs' decoration of flower buds and flower sprays. Good condition: light chipping and some usual wear to the rim.

A Delft tin-glazed earthenware rectangular salad bowl painted in underglaze cobalt blue. The interior decorated with a landscape vignette depicting a gentleman standing on a terrace ...

Delft vase with nice proportions

A White Delft gadrooned dish (plooischotel) decorated in relief with two rows of twenty nine gadroons, with domed well with circular footring 18th Century. Very good condition: usua...

Pair antique 18th century Delft Chinoiserie soup bowls in the Chinese Export style circa 1750. Each decorated with hand painted basket of flowers in blue and white. Octagonal shape w...

A rare tin-glazed earthenware charger from Delft, hand-painted in cobalt blue. The central motif depicts a nude Venus, allegorical of Dame Fortuna, poised with one foot upon a globe ...

Blue Delft chinoiserie plate depicting an oriental landscape comprising flowers, a shrubbery and a willow tree. The borders decorated with three bundles of flower sprigs and foliage....

A Dutch Delft blue and white plate, painted with a pastoral scene depicting a gentleman playing a flute before a seated lady reading a letter. The subject belongs to the repertoire o...

A rare pair of diminutive 18th-Century Dutch Delft faience floral plates by The Porceleyne Lampetkan. Maker's mark on reverse. They display beautifully, decorated with hand painted l...

A monumental Dutch Delft wall charger plate by Royal Tichelaar Makkum, circa 1920. This lovely charger is one of the largest we've seen at 17.9 inches and has a hand painted central ...

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...

Late 18th-century Dutch tin-glazed earthenware plate exemplifying the Delftware tradition, notable for its characteristic cobalt blue underglaze decoration on a white ground. The ...

Mid 18th century Delft Blue plate. Decorated in cobalt blue with a central stylized tulip bud, from which radiating flowering bulbs and blooms extend, forming reserves filled with fu...

Late 18th century Delftware plate with Neoclassical decoration of a central vase with manganese and red flowers and flowering branches. The border is decorated with intertwining red ...

Large 17th Century Delft dish Chinoiserie blue and white Delftware Charger Material: Delft, earthenware, pottery. Design: Ming Dynasty, Wanli style, Chinoiserie Style: Ming, William ...

English Delftware bowl, mid 18th Century, 4.5” h. x 11 7/8” diam. Having a lovely large floral pattern to the exterior, smaller to the interior with a ...

This blue and white English Delft jug was made circa 1750-1760 and is boldly hand-painted with the word “BOY,” framed by freely brushed blue dashes. Its tall, narrow neck rises from ...

A gorgeous vintage Dutch Delft faience polychrome floral scalloped wall charger plate by Royal Tichelaar Makkum, circa 1940. Maker's mark on reverse. The foot on the back is pierced ...

Dutch Delft polychrome plate with lively polychrome decoration of central vase with an abundance of flowers on top op green foliate scrolls. Very ornate border with stylized Artemis...

A Delft blue and white commemorative ceramic plate depicting Admiral Johan Arnold Zoutman (1724–1793), Holland, late 18th century. Painted in underglaze blue with a Dutch warship sa...

18th century Delft plate painted in blue and white with a central landscape scene showing a figure beneath a willow tree near a cottage, framed by a wide border of floral and foliate...

A pair of Dutch Delftware blue and white models of slippers or shoes. Each as a heeled slipper with pointed toe. In the 18th century, miniature ceramic shoes were a distinctive fea...

Pair 18th century Delftware plates with floral decoration. Border adorned with foliage scrolls. marked: Lambertus Sanderus, De Klaauw, 1763-1806. Condition: some scratching and w...

Circa 1800 pair of Delft blue and white vases, Dutch. Decoration after Chinese peony designs of the Kangxi period. Elegantly flared beaker form. Good period condition with microcrazi...

This striking antique French faience wine ewer, dating to the 18th century, is a fine example of traditional tin-glazed earthenware in the distinctive blue-and-white palette popular ...

An early 19th-century Dutch Delft tin-glazed earthenware plate, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a stylised floral Chinoiserie composition depicting a deer behind a fence ami...

Delft faience plate of rare small size with a blue and white decoration inspired by Chinese Kangxi style of a lotus flower in the centre, amidst edges and the edge is decorated with ...

A beautiful set of five blue and white Delft vases, this faience collection was hand-painted in Holland, circa 1900. The three bulbous vases are lidded, each with a finial depicting a rampant lion with a ball in its forepaws. Beneath the lion is a mottled background (on the front side only), with a foliate and floral margent. Each vase has the same scene painted on the front of the main body: a couple walking through a field surrounded by flowers. The opposite side has a floral rinceaux above a foliate branch. Painted in a similar fashion, the two concave vases are without lids. The side opposite from the cartouche of the couple has floral margents. All five vases have canted corners on the base. Inspired by Italian majolica, the faience produced in 16th century Holland...

A fine Dutch Delft polychrome earthenware butter dish with domed cover, decorated in the Japanese Kakiemon style. The round form is painted with birds among flowering branches, execu...

Tin glazed earthenware plate painted in polychrome with a chinoiserie landscape at the center, showing a pavilion, sailing boat, and figure within a scalloped blue border. The rim ca...

A Delft tin-glazed earthenware rectangular salad bowls painted in underglaze cobalt blue. The interior decorated with an Italian landscape. The broad everted rim is richly ornament...

Dutch Delft polychrome plate with lively polychrome decoration of a central vase on a stand filled with flowers flanked by two little insects. Very orn...

Delft faience plate with a chinoiserie decoration of a rock and a fence amongst trees and shrubbery in manganese and green. The borders ornately decorated with geometrically arranged...

Blue Delft blue and white plate with a rare geometric decoration of a central 6 lobbed star. Condition: some usual wear, minor chipping to the rim. Unmarked, mid half 18th century

A large Delft earthenware dish with sought-after "Four Hearts" pattern, the four heart-shaped cartouches between stylized pine cones on a mottled green ground with blue lined palmett...

Delft faience plate with a chinoiserie decoration of a rock and a fence amongst trees and shrubbery in manganese and green. The borders ornately decorated with geometrically arranged...

An early eighteenth-century Dutch Delftware teapot of compressed octagonal form, decorated in the richly coloured Cashmere palette. The faceted body is painted in cobalt blue, iron ...

Rare early 18th century Delftware plate with rare chinoiserie decoration in blue and iron-red. Marked IvL for Johannes and Margaretha van Lockhorst-van der Gucht, owners of De Klaauw...

An 18th-century Dutch Delft tin-glazed earthenware plate, with a Chinoiserie decoration. The central scene depicts a bird in flight above a flowering tree, with a second bird perched...

This charming pair of small Dutch Delft cows was made in Holland circa 1770 and hand-painted in the delicate Petit Feu palette. Each cow is mode...

A beautiful English Delftware plate, hand-painted featuring a Chinoiserie-inspired scene of flowers in full bloom, over which an exotic bird flies. The rim rim decorated with three s...

A pair of 18th-century Dutch Delftware bowls, hand-painted in cobalt blue on tin-glazed white faience, inspired by Chinese porcelain and the Chinoiserie style. Each bowl has a flarin...

An 18th-century Dutch Delft tin-glazed earthenware milking group, modeled as a standing cow with a seated milker at its side, decorated with cold-painted pigments applied after firin...