Lot Essay
See the eleven month plates sold in our Amsterdam Rooms, 25 June 1997, lot 331.
Details
Four Delft (De Porceleyne Bilj) blue and white month plates
each titled and painted with a bucolic scene, comprising: Maart painted with a man standing by his gardener, September with apple picker, October with figures tasting wine and Dezember with figures cutting wood, blue hatchet marks, circa 1760 (some minor flakes to rims and glaze cracks) -- 25.5cm. diam.; and a similar smaller plate titled November, painted with a farmer and family slaughtering a boar (minor flakes to rim) -- 22.7cm. diam.
See colour plate 13 (5)
each titled and painted with a bucolic scene, comprising: Maart painted with a man standing by his gardener, September with apple picker, October with figures tasting wine and Dezember with figures cutting wood, blue hatchet marks, circa 1760 (some minor flakes to rims and glaze cracks) -- 25.5cm. diam.; and a similar smaller plate titled November, painted with a farmer and family slaughtering a boar (minor flakes to rim) -- 22.7cm. diam.
See colour plate 13 (5)