The rare set of two Dutch hand painted blue & white Delft tin glazed earthenware vases on a square base decorated in shades of blue with four rotating panels with windmills and Dutch brown sailing vessels under geo-metric motifs and the round baluster shaped top with stylized flowers in the Art Nouveau style.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & W = 1901
Painter’s signature: VL = Theodorus Antonius Bernardus van Lingen.
Employment dates: 28 March 1893 -1945
Als impressed mark for JT & L (J. Thooft & Labouchere.)
Literature:
This vase is shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft Page 70? - Fig.09 -22. Model: Majoor Vierkant VIII Rarity 2. Original price: 1 = $ 250,--
Height: 13,5 cm. (5,3 inches.)
Width: 5,5 cm. (2,2 inches.)
Weight: 133 & 139 = 272 grams.