It is my pleasure to offer you this DELFT BLUE CENTERPIECE PRODUCED 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.
This is such a professionally painted centerpiece showing a floral design in many shades of blue.
Fully marked on the bottom with the yearmark BS (=1948), the Royal Delft Logo, The stylized JT of Joost Thooft and the painters initials HP (= Mr. H. Planken who worked at De Porceleyne Fles from 1941-1990).
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: 1948
DIMENSIONS: L x W is 15 x 8 inches.
CONDITION: There is a superficial tiny hairline at the toprim as shown in the last pictures. Further is this centerpiece in PERFECT condition. No cracks, chips, flakes or any other flaws.
The white spots on some pictures are the reflection of my photo lights.
GUARANTEE: All items are guaranteed to be AUTHENTIC and in the state as described above, consistent with age and use.
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