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.