The double handled tin glazed earthenware bottle decorated in shades of blue with a decorated roundel within a Dutch landscape with Dutch Brown Sailing vessels. The reverse with a roundel with a flowering plant.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & E = 1883
Two painters worked on this piece
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Painter’s initials: PD = Petrus Leonardus Dijkman
Employment dates: 11 April 1882 - 1922
Painter’s initials: HB = Hendrik Christiaan Bottelier.
Employment dates: 1880 - 1924.
Literature:
Royal Delft, a guide to the Porceleyne Fles van Rick Erickson. Page 70 Fig. 07 -30
Height: 27 cm. (10,6 inches.)
Weight: 859 grams