The oval tin glazed earthenware jardiniere with two scrolled ears decorated in shades of blue with a windmill on a waterfront with Dutch brown sailing vessels in a landscape in a cartouche, surrounded with flowering plants and stylized flowers in a cartouche. The opposite with a windmill on a waterfront.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & N = 1892
Painter’s initials: TD = Lambertus Gerardus Nicolaas ten Dam.
Employment dates: 5 May 1890 - Jan. 1918.
Painter’s initials: AG = A.C. van Bergen van Grijp
Employment dates: 1889 - 1918
Impressed mark: JL & T Joost Thooft & La Bouchere
Literature:
This item is noticed in the book Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson. On page 92 Fig. 09 – 04 Jardinière rond no. 3, VII 13
Height: 16 cm. (6,3 inches.)
Length: 27 cm. (10,6 inches.)
Width: 19,5 cm. (7,7 inches.)
Weight: 1.569 grams