JVV 0468
The Netherlands, 1640-1660
The wide bowl has a cantilevered rim and is painted in blue and yellow. The centre depicts a farmstead with haystack near a ditch. A church tower is visible in the background. The representation is framed in a double circle, the well is unpainted. The border features an ornamental decor consisting of stylised, striped leaves and small flowers. Three stilt marks, which are characteristic for majolica, are visible in the centre.
Dimensions: diameter 27,5 cm / 10.82 in., height 9 cm / 3.54 in.
Condition: restored, not completed.
Provenance: archaeological find near Hoorn
Similar examples
A blue and white dish with a similar decor featuring two buildings with a haystack behind them is in the collection of The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (OKS 1990-132). It is possible that this piece is by the same pottery painter as the deep bowl discussed here. A majolica dish depicting a horseman in a landscape in blue and yellow is in the Posten collection (Hebben & Peters 2020, p. 13). A dish in blue and yellow with the same border decor and an interior scene of a man and woman punishing a child is in the Dutch Open Air Museum (Klijn 2003, p. 170).
Explanatory note
Dutch landscapes were depicted on tin-glazed pottery from the second quarter of the seventeenth century onwards: on majolica porridge bowls and dishes, and on faience plates, dishes and lobed dishes. Landscapes in blue and yellow are rare.
Literature
V. Hebben, I. Peters, Im Glanz des Barock. Fayencen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts. Sammlung Wolfgang und Marie-Louise Posten, exh. cat., Schriften des Niederrheinischen Museums für Volkskunde und Kulturgeschichte e.V. Kevelaer 22, Kevelaer 2020
E.M.Ch.F. Klijn, Onbekend tinglazuuraardewerk. De collectie van het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Arnhem 2003
