Antique Dutch Blue & White Royal Delft Hand Painted Pilgrims Jug with Landscape - 1883

The single handled tin glazed earthenware jug decorated in shades of blue with a roundel within a Landscape on a river. The reverse with a roundel with a flowering plant with a perched bird. Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND  &  E  = 1883
Painter’s initials: JVI  = J.W.N. Merkelbagh
Employment dates:  1881 - 1882
Painter: HB =  Hendrik Christiaan Bottelier.
Employment dates:   1880 - 1924.
Literature:

Royal Delft, a guide to the Porceleyne Fles van Rick Erickson. Page 84 Fig. 08-07 & 06

Height: 25,5 cm.  (10,4 inches.)

Weight: 753 grams