Antieke Zeldzame Set van Twee De Porceleyne Fles Dekselvazen / Pullen - 1920. VERKOCHT

The two very rare corded tin glazed earthenware jars with covers decorated in shades of blue with flowering peonies and a perched bird on rockwork above rotating stylized flowers. The top with roting panels with geometric figures and floral swags. The domed covers surmounted with a finial.

Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:

DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT

DELFT - HOLLAND & 1920
With the  Pigeon of Peace  =  RARE ! (1920 = Year of the peace conference in January in Versailles.) 

Painter’s initials: VR  =  A.E.V. Roggeveen

Employment dates: 1892  - 1945.

Literature: 

Delftware . History of a  National Product De Porceleyne Fles. Page 128 ill. 3  on a page of models from Royal Delft circa 1930. Page. 153 nm 225 from 1923 with a Royal Crown .Not shown in Royal Delft by Rick Erickson.              

Height: 22,5 /  32 cm. (8,9 / 12,6 inches.) 

Weight: 998 & 996  =  1.994 grams.