Rare Dutch Green & White Royal Delft “Delvert” Hand Painted Lidded Box - 1961

The rare rectangular earthenware lidded box decorated in shades of soft green with stylized floral and geometric motifs. This box in “Delvert Green” is made seven years before the Delvert Delft came on the market. Finished with a matt milky glaze. Signed on the bottom in underglaze green for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT  -   HOLLAND  &   CF = 1961
Painter’s initials:  AVG  =  A. van Gent.
Employment dates: 1953 - 1965
Inside cover: 
Schill & Capadose.
1886 - 1971 
(Bankiershuis Den Haag , Hofstraat 21, 75 Years) In 1952 overgenomen door Pierson, Heldring & Pierson)

Height: 4,5 cm.   (1,8 inches.)
Length: 14,5 cm. (5,7 inches.)                       
Width:  10,3 cm. (4,1 inches.)
Weight: 460 Grams.