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.