JVV 0623
Dutch Republic, 1675-1700
Blue and white porringer on foot with two horizontal lobed and pierced handles. The centre is painted with a fruit basket and three leafy sprigs, framed in a double circle. A band of stylized floral ornaments between thick lines is applied on the inner border. The handles are painted with a dash motif. Three stilt marks, which are characteristic for maiolica, are visible in the centre. The outside of the porringer has a transparent lead glaze.
Dimensions: diameter 16,4 cm / 6.45 in., from handle to handle 24,5 cm / 9.64 in., height 5,9 cm / 2.32 in.
Similar examples
A similar porringer was excavated in Amsterdam and is attributed to Haarlem (Gawronski, p. 241, no. 746). Two other porringers painted with a fruit basket are part of the collection of the Dutch Open Air Museum in Arnhem (Klijn, p. 57, ns. 1.b.6 and 1.b.7).
Explanatory note
Porringers were made both in faience and in maiolica, like this example, and were manufactured by many potteries mainly in the seventeenth century.
Literature
J. Gawronski, Amsterdam ceramics. A city’s history and an archaeological ceramics catalogue 1175-2011, Amsterdam 2012
E.M.Ch.F. Klijn, Onbekend tinglazuuraardewerk. De collectie van het Nederlands Openluchtmuseum, Arnhem 2003
