Five Dutch Delft blue and white crucifixion dishes

SECOND HALF 18TH CENTURY

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Five Dutch Delft blue and white crucifixion dishes
Second half 18th Century
Decorated with Christ nailed to the Cross, on a light-blue ground, underneath the inscription INRI, His blood dripping in red, flanked by the two crucified thieves Dismas (Good) and Gestas (Evil), the border with a narrow floral band
23 cm. (9 in.) diam. (5)

Lot Essay

Cf. J. Boyazoglu and L. de Neuville, Les faïences de Delft (Paris 1980), p. 72, ill. 19

Dismas and Gestas are names taken from the apocryphal Gospel of Nicodemus

See illustration of two on page 78

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