A pair of rectangular Dutch Delft 'mixed technique' plaques, 1st quarter 18th C.

Dim.: 22 x 25 cm

Provenance:
- An important Belgian private collection.
- Acquired from Aronson Antiquairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 2008 and with their labels to the back. Scans of the catalogue where the plaques are featured are included. ('Dutch Delftware' by Robert D. Aronson, 2008)

Pair of Polychrome Rectangular Plaques
Delft, circa 1720
Each painted in blue in the center with a chinoiserie figure seated at a table set with a tall vase of flow ers, and with a second figure standing before a gar-den fence on which a large bird is perched beneath a second bird perched on the flowering branch of a tree peony growing from behind a large rock, the wide self frame molded at the top and bottom with iron-red, blue and ochre pomegranates, on the sides with a large blossom, and at the corners with blue grape clusters, all alternating with green grape leaves against an iron-red ground patterned with yellow-centered blue and white demi-blossoms and foliate scrolls, the top of the rim pierced with a hole for suspension.
Size: 22 x 24.7 cm. (8 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Similar example:
A plaque of this model, but with a different central blue and white chinoiserie scene, is illustrated in Aronson. 1996, ill. 9, and by Lavino, p. 117 (bottom).
(Source: 'Dutch Delftware' by Robert D. Aronson, 2008, p. 74 & 75, ill. 50)

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