The tin glazed earthenware ball vase decorated in shades of blue with stylized flowers and three rotating cartouches with a mii, brown sailing vessel with a dark background. The bird sitting on a branche without leaves. Produced during the Second World War.Any influence by the war and occupied Holland by the Germans??? Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & BJ = 1940
Painter’s initials: JF = J. Fröhlich Jr.
Employment dates: 1932-1977/79.
Literature:
This item is not described in Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson.Only shown in the decor A models page 263 VIII 138.
Height: 14 cm. (5,5 inches.)
Diam.: 17 cm. (6,7 inches.)
Weight: 667 grams