JVV 0314
Delft, 1650-1680
The blue and white dish has a wide-spreading flange. The centre is painted with a basket on a low square table, filled with flowers, fruits, a book scroll and insects. It is placed on the ground in front of a balustrade. The basket is decorated with a meander motif. The scene is set in an octagon in a double circle. The well and flange are painted with eight circles separated from each other by stylized floral motifs, meanders and scales. The outer rim is decorated with a small band of cartouches, trellis-work and scales. The cartouches are filled with a stylized plant motif that connects to the one between the circles. The outer edge is blue.
Dimensions: diameter 39.2 cm / 15.4 in.
Similar examples
A similar dish with the same decor of a flower basket in a border of circles and an outer rim is in the Posten collection (Hebben & Peters, p. 76). Another copy was in the collection of antique dealer Aronson (fig. 25).
Explanatory note
The decoration is inspired by Chinese kraakporcelain from the first half of the seventeenth century.
Literature
V. Hebben, I. Peters, Im Glanz des Barock. Fayencen des 17. Und 18. Jahrhunderts. Sammlung Wolfgang und Marie-Luise Posten, Kevelaer 2020
D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Aronson. Dutch Delftware, Amsterdam n.d. [1990]
M. Rinaldi, Kraak porcelain. A moment in the history of trade, London 1989
