The tin glazed earthenware pilgrim’s bottle / vase decorated in shades of blue on the front with a Dutch brown sailing vessels in a Dutch landscape in a roundel.
The second bottle with on the front a Dutch landscape with a windmill on a waterfront.
The reverses with a stylized flowering plant in a roundel. The two scrolled ears between stylized flowers and leaves.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT – HOLLAND - 1917 & AC = 1907
Painter’s initials PD = Petrus L. Dijkman.
Employment dates : 1882 - 1922
Literature:
Same set of two Pilgrim vases from the same painter are shown in: Royal Delft, a guide to the Porceleyne Fles van Rick Erickson. Page 70 Fig. 07-30
Height: 27,3 cm.(10,7 inches.)
Weight: 863 & 778 grams