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Lot Essay
In general the year 1650 is considered as the date when one distinguishes the finer quality Delft earthenware looking like porcelain, from the coarser maiolica. The internal wars in China between the Ming dynasty and the invading Manchus, made it virtually impossible for the Dutch East Company V.O.C. to ship the highly coveted Chinese porcelain to Europe between 1650 and 1680. For the Delft pottery manufacturers, who succeeded in producing "Dutch porcelain" on a large scale to meet the great demand, this meant a period of unprecedented prosperity. During this time a large proportion of the output of tin glazed earthenware in Delft faithfully imitated Chinese porcelain in both form and decoration.
We would like to thank Mrs. M. van Aken-Fehmers of the Gemeentemuseum the Hague for kindly providing us with an article by A. Vecht about Michoyel van Eems, Een zeventiende-eeuwse Haarlemse plateelbakker (een bijdrage tot verkrijging van meerdere kennis van het Haarlemse aardewerk uit de 17de eeuw)
This dated vase with its rather pale cobalt blue designs drawn on an opaque milky white tin glaze, could possibly have been produced by Michoyel van Eems in 1665 in Haarlem or Delft.
From circa 1920 until very shortly, this type of ware was believed to have originated in Frankfurt am Main. Around 1666 a pottery in the Dutch manner was founded in Frankfurt by potters from the Southern Netherlands introducing Delftware to Germany, producing ceramics with more elaborate baroque forms and paler blues than usual in Dutch Delftware. Many objects of this early period are ascribed to both Delft and Frankfurt. The last word has still not been said with regard to this matter. The early date 1665 should be a sufficient proof for the Dutch quality of this vase and most of the objects of its class. It could be stated that the decoration and model of this onion-necked vase was very closely copied by the Frankfurt potters from 1666 onwards.
We would like to thank Mrs. M. van Aken-Fehmers of the Gemeentemuseum the Hague for kindly providing us with an article by A. Vecht about Michoyel van Eems, Een zeventiende-eeuwse Haarlemse plateelbakker (een bijdrage tot verkrijging van meerdere kennis van het Haarlemse aardewerk uit de 17de eeuw)
This dated vase with its rather pale cobalt blue designs drawn on an opaque milky white tin glaze, could possibly have been produced by Michoyel van Eems in 1665 in Haarlem or Delft.
From circa 1920 until very shortly, this type of ware was believed to have originated in Frankfurt am Main. Around 1666 a pottery in the Dutch manner was founded in Frankfurt by potters from the Southern Netherlands introducing Delftware to Germany, producing ceramics with more elaborate baroque forms and paler blues than usual in Dutch Delftware. Many objects of this early period are ascribed to both Delft and Frankfurt. The last word has still not been said with regard to this matter. The early date 1665 should be a sufficient proof for the Dutch quality of this vase and most of the objects of its class. It could be stated that the decoration and model of this onion-necked vase was very closely copied by the Frankfurt potters from 1666 onwards.