The oval tin glazed earthenware jardiniere with two scrolled ears decorated in shades of blue with a windmill on a waterfront with Dutch brown sailing vessels in a landscape in a cartouche, surrounded with flowering plants and stylized flowers in a cartouche. The opposite with windmills on a waterfront.
Signed on the bottom in underglaze blue for:
DE PORCELEYNE FLES - ROYAL DELFT
DELFT - HOLLAND & N = 1892
Painter: PD = Petrus Leonardus Dijkman
Employment dates 11 April 1882 - 1922
Impressed mark: JT & L = Joost Thooft & La Bouchere
Literature:
This item is NOT noticed in the book Royal Delft a guide to the Porceleyne Fles by Rick Erickson. On page 92 the later model Jardinière ovaal no. 3, VII 8.
Height: 16,8 cm. (6,7 inches.)
Width: 36 cm. (14,2 inches.)
Weight: 2.263 grams