JVV 0544
Northern Netherlands, 1650-1680
Plate with a blue and white decor of a fisherman in a landscape in a double circle. The well and rim are unpainted. The plate has no foot rim.
Dimensions: diameter 21,3 cm / 8.38 in.
Explanatory note
Plates without a foot rim with a diameter of around 22 cm were mass-produced in the seventeenth century from around 1630 by potteries in Delft and other places. The plates are painted mainly with Dutch decors such as landscapes, biblical scenes, still lifes, fruits, floral decors, animals, heraldic arms, cartouches, figures, texts, etc. It is a particularly attractive group due to its smooth and sketchy style of painting. Due to frequent and daily use, many have also been lost and discarded. Consequently, they turn up with great regularity in archaeological excavations. Examples that have survived time above ground are rarer.
