A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT CHINOISERIE (DE PORCELEYNE FLES FACTORY) CHARGERS
A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT CHINOISERIE (DE PORCELEYNE FLES FACTORY) CHARGERS

CIRCA 1771-86 , BOTH WITH BLUE CONJOINED JHL ABOVE A BOTTLE MARK FOR JACOBUS HARLEES

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A PAIR OF DUTCH DELFT CHINOISERIE (DE PORCELEYNE FLES FACTORY) CHARGERS
CIRCA 1771-86 , BOTH WITH BLUE CONJOINED JHL ABOVE A BOTTLE MARK FOR JACOBUS HARLEES
Painted in blue and trekked in manganese with three chinoiserie figures standing or seated before terracing amongst flowering shrubs, rockwork and trees, within a blue lined rim (minor chipping and glaze fritting to rim)
13 ½ in. (34.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Kunstveilingen Sotheby Mak van Waay B.V., Amsterdam, 22 April 1980, lot 1062 (part).

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Lot Essay

For a discussion of the production of De Porceleyne Fles in the 17th and 18th centuries and two dishes painted with the same pattern as that on the present examples and attributed to Jacobus Harlees see Loet A. Schledorn, et al., Delftware, History of a national product, De Porceleyne Fles, Gemeente Musea Delft, Zwolle, 2003, Vol. III, pp. 48-61, and ill. 11a and 12.

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