The tin glazed earthenware plaques decorated in shades of blue with a perched peacock sitting a flowering branch on rockwork and a flying insect. These plaques have a nice shaped pierced hanger on the top.
Signed on the back in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND - 1918 & AN = 1918
Both same production number 860
Painter’s initials: PF = Pieter Cornelis Marinus de Fouw
Employment dates: 15 March 1883 - 1931
Literature:
This item is not shown in Rick Erickson - Royal Delft, only the later modern
version on Page 187 - Fig.13-22 as Model XII 29
Height: 23 cm. (9,1 inches.)
Width: 24,8 cm. (9,8 inches.)
Weight: 627 & 624 grams.