Delft Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

This extraordinary Dutch Delft pancake plate was made in the early 18th century. Beautifully hand-painted, it features bold zigzag lighting bolts, Bliksemborden, which seem to flash across the plate. Between the lightning bolts, we see clouds painted...

The Parrot's Garden: Dutch Delft Polychrome Chinoiserie Plaque, Circa 1730–40 A rare and vibrant Dutch Delft polychrome wall plaque, dating to the early 18th century (circa 1730–40). The shaped plaque features a raised, molded border decorated with alternating painted panels of flowers and Chinese auspicious objects (such as scrolls and ribbons). The central scene is painted in a distinctive puce, yellow, and green palette, depicting a slightly off-center table holding a vase filled with flowers. Perched prominently on the floral branches is a large yellow parrot, surrounded by several flying insects. To the left, a small figure of a gardener stands with two watering pots at his feet, tending to the scene. The composition is surmounted by a molded blue shell finial pierced with a suspension hole, and the exterior rim is finished in blue. Measurements: Height: 8 7/8 inches (22.5 cm) Width: 9 3/4 inches (24.8 cm) Depth: 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) Condition: Good antique condition. No restoration is present. There is typical flaking (fritting) to the glaze on the rim, consistent with age and material. Provenance: B.F. Edwards Collection...

Royal Delft vintage handpainted Dutch Delftware - earthenware Style: Baroque, Vintage, Antique, Rustic Large blue and white cabinet plate - wall plaque Depicting Girl with the pearl ...

This striking pair of tile pictures is painted in manganese purple on a white tin glaze, each panel made up of six tiles laid two across and three down, with the design carried boldl...

A Fine 18th c Dutch polychrome painted Delft charger, decorated with vibrantly colored stylized tulips and flowers painted in manganese, green, yellow...

Factory mark of De Porceleyne Bijl Factory. Each painted with scenes of peasants drinking or dancing in a village setting.

A fine English Delft charger. With a central stylized floret or sunburst, swag flowers geometric borders. Simply a wonderful piece of English Delft pottery! Date: Mid-18th Century...

A pair of fine antique Dutch Delft plates. Each depicting a woman in classical Chinese garb gesturing towards an extravagant potted plant atop a table. The rim of each is decorated...

A fine 18th century Dutch Delft pottery tile in manganese. With a scene depicting the Binding of Isaac - the famous Biblical story from the book o...

Circa 1750 Delft blue & white deep serving dish or fruit bowl. By P. VanderStrom's pottery de vergulde Blompot (The Golden Flower Pot). Simply decorated in the peacock feather fan in...

Dutch Delft Bough Hanging Pot, early 18th Century or possibly earlier, with a blue-and-white floral design, a perforated top, a flat back, and side holes for hanging.

17th Century Dutch Delft Snuff / Patch Box, decorated scrolls flowers and a possible scene of the Nativity. Base is white with crown and makers mark.

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 ...

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 Belgian delft platter or wall plate made by Boch for Royal Sphinx Holland. Decorated with a bucolic Dutch scene including cottages and trees in the foreground with windmills dotted...

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...

Two fine 18th Century Dutch delft plates. 9” diam.

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...

A lovely antique 19th-Century Dutch Delft faience plate by the De Klaauw factory. Maker's mark on reverse. This lovely plate has a hand painted central floral motif and foliate borde...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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 ...

18th-19th century hand painted Delft platter, 12 1/8” diameter.

Dutch Delft polychrome 'Peacock' plate, late 18th century, with ochre rim, the center decorated in a vase containing an arrangement of peacock feathers and flowers. The rim decorated...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

English delftware bowl, London, c. 1770. 5” h. x 12” diam. Having a whimsical pastoral landscape design around the entire exterior. Though referred to...

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...

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 ...

Delft vase with nice proportions

This charming Dutch Delft garniture comprises the traditional five pieces: two beaker vases and three baluster-form jars with their covers. It is in excellent condition. We see a rom...

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...

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 ...

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 fine English delft charger featuring a chinoiserie garden scene with long-tailed bird, butterflies, and bees amid peonies and a fence, painted in deep cobalt blue on a tin-glazed g...

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...

Early 18th century Blue Delftware dish with very crisp 'parsley or mille fleurs' decoration comprising sprays of flowers and birds. Marked: Pieter Gerritsz. Kam, owner of Drie Poste...

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...

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...

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...

A fine antique 18th century Dutch Delft figurine. In the form of a seated boy holding a birdcage with a bird inside. In greens, blues, pink and manga...

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...

Large English Delft Charger, with blue swag, geometric, and floral decoration, early 18th century. Diameter 12 inches.

A pair of Delft chargers with polychrome decoration, each centered with a mounted figure within a double blue line border. The rims are decorated with alternating stylized leaves and...

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...

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.

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....

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 ...