Lot Essay
Cf. P. Biesboer, Nederlandse Majolica (Amsterdam 1997), p.46 ill.41 for a dish with reminiscences of the gentleman's features.
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CIRCA 1600, PROBABLY DELFT
Details
A Dutch polychrome portrait tile
Circa 1600, probably Delft
Decorated with the portrait in profile of a gentleman wearing a lace collar and a high bulbous hat, within orange brown lozenge frame, with palmetto Spaartechniek corners
See illustration
Circa 1600, probably Delft
Decorated with the portrait in profile of a gentleman wearing a lace collar and a high bulbous hat, within orange brown lozenge frame, with palmetto Spaartechniek corners
See illustration
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