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

The tin glazed charger of shaped vorm, decorated in shades of blue with a crane, amidst flowering peonies and insects, surrounded with peacock feathers and flowers. The rim 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.

Literature:

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

Signed on the back in underglaze blue with a claw for:
DE PORCELEYNE KLAAUW
 

DELFT – HOLLAND,

Circa 1760.

Diam.: 35,5 cm. (14 inches.)