JVV 0612
Northern Netherlands, 1630-1660
The lobed dish is composed of twenty-seven double lobes and painted in blue and yellow with a seated putto holding a flag. The putto is flanked by two aigrette-shaped trees. The decor is framed in two blue circles and one thick yellow one, and a band of radial stripes. An aigrette motif is applied in the border.
Dimensions: diameter 31,4 cm / 12.36 in.
Similar examples
A lobed dish with a painting of a putto in blue and yellow in a radial frame is in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam (inv. no. A4345). Ostkamp (p. 29, fig. 85) shows a specimen from a private collection. A lobed dish with an arrow-and-bow shooting putto with an aigrette border in blue and purple is found in Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (inv. no. BK-NM 5735).
Explanatory note
Traditionally this type of lobed dishes are attributed to Haarlem, but they may also have been made in Delft, Harlingen and possible Rotterdam. The production of lobed dishes in The Netherlands began under influence of French imports from Nevers in the first half of the seventeenth century (Jaspers). The decoration, however, testifies to Italian influence. A concise painting in a few colors (mainly blue and yellow) was developed in Faenza in the second half of the sixteenth century. It is called a compendiario, which means sketchy, and was a reaction to the full and overall painted plates and dishes from the first half of the sixteenth century. Both the aigrette motif and the putto are copied from Italian examples. The motif of a putto in an aigrette border was a very popular setting in the first half of the seventeenth century and was used on both majolica and faience in the Netherlands.
Literature
N.L. Jaspers, ‘Met de Franse slag. Franse compendiario faïence uit Nederlandse bodem (ca. 1600-1660)’, in: Vormen uit Vuur, 199 (2007-4), pp. 2-16
S. Ostkamp, ‘Hollants porceleyn en straetswerck. De voorgeschiedenis van Delft als centrum van de Nederlandse productie van faience en het ontstaan van Delfts wit’, in: Vormen uit Vuur, 223/224 (2014-1), pp. 2-46
V. de Pompeis, La maiolica Italiana di stile compendiario I bianchi, Torino 2010
