Antique Dutch 18th Century Blue & White Delft Plate. De Porceleyne Beyl.


The Antique Dutch Blue & White Delft tinglazed faience dish of shaped vorm, decorated in shades of blue with a crane, amidst flowering peonies and insects,surrounded with peacock feathers and flowers. The rims of the dish with a scallopped patern with flowers and peacock feathers. Inspired after the Chinese blue and white porcelain. In the far east a crane was a symbol of long life. Signed on the back in underglaze blue with an axe for:

DE PORCELEYNE BEYL

Literature:

Delft Ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, page 76.

 

DELFT – HOLLAND, 

Circa 1760.

 

Diam.: 25,5 cm. (10 inches.)

 

 

Reference
D.052
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