Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Winter Landscape Plaque. After Apol 1898. SOLD

The cartouche shaped tin glazed earthenware plaque decorated in shades of blue with a windmill on a waterfront  in a Dutch Winter landscape, surrounded with scrolls and geometric motifs.  Under left: Naar Ls Apol. 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 & T  = 1898

Painter: AG = Andreas Petrus Guerrain

Employment dates: June 6th 1887 - 1938       

Painter’s initials: JG = Jacobus Jaap Wilhelmus Gidding (also Designer)

Employment dates: 1887 - 23 April  1955 

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,-- This motif on page 183 Fig.13-16 on an other shaped plaque

Height:  30 cm.   (11,8 inches.)

Width:   27,5 cm.(10,8 inches.)

Weight: 1.015 grams.

Lodewijk Frederik Hendrik (Louis.) Apol 

(6 September 1850 in The Hague - 22 November 1936 in The Hague) was  a Dutch painter and one of the most prominent representatives of the Hague School. His work is widely spread and found in the USA, United Kingdom and Germany. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag have work of Louis Apol in their collection.