JVV 0382
The Netherlands, 1630-1650
The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty small lobes and is painted in the centre with a floral chinoiserie decoration of a bird on a rock among flowers and plants. The depiction is framed within a thick band. The border is alternately painted with stylized flowers and branches of leaves.
The back features a pattern of radial stripes.
Dimensions: diameter 29 cm / 11.41 in.
Explanatory note
The hand of the painter who executed this chinoiserie decoration on this lobed dish can also be recognised in a chinoiserie decoration on a faience wine jug in the collection of Edwin van Drecht
(p. 111). The similarities in the execution of the bird, the six-leaf branch, the pointed leaves on the rock and the flowers are striking.
This lobed dish belongs to the early the Dutch faience and can be dated between circa 1630 and 1650. The radial stripes on the back are an important feature for an attribution of lobed dishes before 1650.
The wine jug in Van Drecht's collection and related examples with similar chinoiserie decors were made in Delft and other places in the Dutch Republic in the second quarter of the seventeenth century. The image of such a jug on a still life by Pieter Claesz from 1626 is evidence of this early production. A still life by Laurens Craen from 1648 also features such a jug (see website RKD Explore database). This model does not occur in Chinese porcelain and therefore it is with certainty faience made in the Netherlands.
Literature
Frits Scholten, Dutch majolica & delftware (1550-1700) from the Edwin van Drecht collection, Amsterdam 1993
