The rectangular tin glazed earthenware plaques decorated in shades of blue with a perched bird on a flowering plant, surrounded with floral and geometric motifs.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND 1919 & AO = 1919
Painter’s initals: PF = Pieter Cornelis Marinus de Fouw.
Employment dates: 1883 – 1931.
Painter’s initials: VL = Theodorus Antonius Bernardus van Lingen
Employment dates: 28 March 1893 – 1945.
Impressed mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere in a circle
Literature:
Rectangular plaques (Applique) with buildings are shown in Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson on page 184. This kind is not mentioned.
Height: 16,2 cm. (6,4 inches.)
Width: 12,4 cm. (4,9 inches.)
Weight: 321 & 314 grams.