Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Double Gourd Bottle / Vase - 1914. SOLD

The 17th century style tin glazed earthenware ribbed Double-Gourd Vase/ Bottle painted in shades of blue with flowering peonies on the ovoid body. The baluster upper section en suite with flowering peonies and a band of stiff leaves around the rim. Model : Japanees Fles geribd.  Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND &  AJ   =  1914

Painter’s initials: VB  =  Willem Alexander Karel Hendrik Frederik van Baarsel.           

Employment dates: June 30th 1893 - 1944 or 1945

Height:  37 cm. (14,6 inches.) 

Weight: 1.484 grams.