The cartouche shaped tin glazed earthenware plaque decorated in shades of blue with a windmill on a waterfront in a Dutch landscape, surrounded with scrolls and geometric motifs. Under left: Naar G. Koekoek. A so called Schollen Plaque, after the shape of a plaice, a flat fish .
Design by Le Comte. Applique No.2 XII -3
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for :
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & S = 1897
Painter: VK = Antonius van Kampenhout
Employment date : 1892 - 1942
Painter’s initials: AC = A. le Comte. Designer & Painter
Employment dates: 11 April 1882 - 1922
Impressed mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere in a circle
Literature:
Shown in : Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson on page 181 with rarity 2. Original price = $ 2.000,--
Height: 30 cm. (11,8 inches.)
Width: 27,5 cm. (10,8 inches.)
Weight: 1.003 grams.
Gerardus ( Gerard ) Johannes Koekoek.
Hilversum May 27th 1871 - 2 July 1956. Grandson of Hermanus Koekoek Sr , the son of Jojannes Hermanus Koekoek, both famous painters of the Dutch Romantic Schoool. Working in Amsterdam and member of Arti Amicitiae on the Rokin.)