Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Charger with Portrait Frans Hals, The Laughing Cavelier - 1974


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The tin glazed earthenware rimmed charger decorated in shades of blue with a portrait of a merchant, known as De Lachende Cavalier by Frans Hals. 

(Nowadays Wallace Collection London, 83 x 67,3 cm.)
The rim decorated with floral motifs.

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE  PORCELEYNE  FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT  - HOLLAND & CT  =  1974

Painter’s initials: HPL =  H. Planken

Employment dates:  1941 - 1990

Literature:

Similar  chargers shown in: Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson on Page 121.   

 

Diameter: 41,3 cm. (16,3 inches.) 

Weight:  1.742 grams.

 

Material
Hand Painted Earthenware
Reference
M.1807
Price
Price on request
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