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It is my pleasure to offer you this magnificent handpainted Delft wall plate produced by The Royal Porceleyne Fles in Delft, The Netherlands.
De Porceleyne Fles was founded in 1653 however it got famous when Joost Thooft took over this small factory at Delft in 1876. He produced traditional blue on white Delft ware and tile tableaus but with a new technique.
The painters of Royal Delft are trained in the factory starting off with simple designs in blue/white on the smaller pieces. A painter first has to learn how to paint the little flowers and leaves that so characteristically adorn Delftware vases and the borders of Delftware plates. The painters then gradually progress to larger pieces with more complicated designs. Only the master painters, who have trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague paint the elaborate landscape and Dutch masters pieces.
As early as 1878 and 1879 contemporary Dutch artists entered into agreement with the Porceleyne Fles to allow their paintings to be copied. Landscapes were introduced to production, soon followed by genre paintings. Josef Israëls, Johannes Bosboom, Frederik Jacob van Rossum du Chattel, Anton Mauve, Otto Eerelmann, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag (all members of the artist's society "Pulchri Studio" in The Hague) played an important role. Contacts were easy because Adolf Lecomte, the artistic leader of The Porceleyne Fles was the brother in law of Anton Mauve.
This picture is after a painting of Fredericus Jacobus van Rossum du Chattel (born in Leiden in 1856 and died in Yokohamain 1917) who was an important painter of landscapes, especially water views. His paintings are shown in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and many other Dutch Museums. He travelled a lot in the West Indies and Japan.
This painting of A LANDSCAPE WITH HIDDEN CASTLE thru the foliage is marked at the front with "naar F.J. du Chattel". Further fully marked at the back with the yearmark BU (=1950), the Royal Delft Logo, The stylized JT of Joost Thooft and the (master) painters initials JK ( = J. Koster, who painted the rim) and WH (= Mr. W.M.G. ten Hacken who worked at De Porceleyne Fles from 1939 - 1984).
Lit. refs:
(a) "De Porceleyne Fles, de Wedergeboorte van een Delftse Aardewerkfabriek" by Bogaers, Gaillard en Ten Horn-Van Nispen (1986),
(b) "Royal Delft, a guide to De Porceleyne Fles" by Rick Erickson (2003) and
(c) "1653-2003 From Pottery to Royal Delft" by Jessica van Erkel & Arnold de Koster (2003).
AGE: 1950
DIMENSIONS: Diameter is 16.5 inches (=41 cm).
CONDITION: EXCELLENT. This plate is in PERFECT condition. No cracks, chips, flakes or any other flaws.
A real treasure for any TOP QUALITY HANDPAINTED DELFT Collection.
The white spots on some pictures are the reflection of my photo lights.
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