Antieke De Porceleyne Fles Delfts Blauwe Schollen Plaquette - 1897. Naar Koekoek. VERKOCHT

The cartouche shaped tin glazed earthenware plaque decorated in shades of blue with a windmill on a waterfront in a Dutch landscape, surrounded with scrolls and geometric motifs. Under left: Naar G. Koekoek. A so called Schollen Plaque, after the shape of a plaice, a flat fish .

Design by Le Comte.   Applique  No.2  XII -3            

Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT 

DELFT - HOLLAND &  S   =  1897

Painter: VK  = Antonius van Kampenhout

Employment dates : 1892 - 1942 

Painter’s initials: AC = A. le Comte. Designer & Painter 

Employment dates: 11 April 1882 - 1922 

Impressed  mark: Joost Thooft & La Bouchere in a circle

Literature:

Shown in: Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson  on page 181 with rarity 2.  Original price  =  $  2.000,--

Height:  30 cm. (11,8 inches.)

Width:   27,5 cm. (10,8 inches.)

Weight: 1.003 grams.

Gerardus ( Gerard ) Johannes Koekoek.   

Hilversum  May 27th 1871 - 2 July 1956.  Grandson of Hermanus Koekoek Sr , the son of Jojannes Hermanus Koekoek, both famous painters of the Dutch Romantic  Schoool.  Working in Amsterdam and member of Arti Amicitiae on the Rokin.)