Delft Earthenware Dish, Eighteenth Century.

This large Delft earthenware dish, in shades of blue, was produced in the middle of the 18th century, it comes from the factory called "Porceleyne Claeuw" (The porcelain claw). Circular in shape, its edge is scalloped, the bottom is painted with a flowering tea tree, this type of Chinese-inspired decor, exuberant and opulent, appeared in the 1750s, it is generally surrounded by a barrier like c This is the case here and a few flowers or wild grasses complete the whole, a small frieze of interlacing surrounds the whole at the base of the wing, the latter is covered on the periphery with flowery lambrequins. Two similar dishes are kept at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, they are exhibited in a 17th century room from a house called "Het Scheepje" in Haarlem Netherlands. Period mid-eighteenth century. Three small restorations are to be reported on the edge of the wing, they are visible on one of the detail photos. Diameter 35cm.