Rare Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Wall Charger after F.J. du Chattel. Winter Landscape - 1889.

The hand painted tin glazed earthenware charger decorated in shades of blue in the centre with a windmill (bovenkruier) on a waterfront in a Dutch winter landscape with a row of trees. The rim with stylized flowers and leaves. Under right: naar F.J. du Chattel.  After a painting by Fredericus Jacobus van Rossum du Chattel. (Leiden 1856 - 1917 Yokohama – Japan.) He painted a lot near the river Vecht in the state Utrecht. Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT  

DELFT - HOLLAND & K = 1889

Painter: HB =  Hendrik Christian Bottelier

Employment dates: 1880 - Feb. 5th 1924.

Impressed  mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere  in a circle.

Literature:

Several chargers are  shown in - Royal Delft  a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Ericksonon Pages 117,123 & 124    

Diameter: 38,5 cm. (15,2 inches.)

Weight: 1873 grams.