Antique Dutch 18th Century Blue & White Delft Charger with a Crane. De Porceleyne Klaauw.

The rimmed faience charger of shaped form, decorated in shades of blue with a crane, amidst flowering peonies and insects, surrounded with peacock feathers and flowering peonies.. The rims of the dish with a scalloped pattern 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 a claw for:
DE PORCELEYNE KLAAUW
DELFT – HOLLAND, Circa 1760.
Literature:
Delft Ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, page 76.

Diam : 35,5 cm. (14 inches.)       
Weight: 1.462 grams.