Northern Netherlands, 1650-1680
The blue and white lobed dish is composed of twenty small lobes and is painted in the centre with a village view with a church tower. The depiction is framed within a double circle. The lobes are decorated with stylized floral motifs. The rim is blue.
Dimensions: diameter 20,9 cm / 8.22 in.
Explanatory note
This lobed dish is part of a large group of lobed dishes decorated with landscapes, fruits, flowers, putti and Chinese motifs, mainly executed in blue and white. Besides the stylized, floral border motif, another type with flowers alternated with branches of leaves also occurs. They were all made in the second and third quarter of the seventeenth century.
