A rare Dutch Delft polychrome square genre plaque with Delft noir border

MID 18TH CENTURY

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A rare Dutch Delft polychrome square genre plaque with Delft noir border
Mid 18th Century
After a pastoral scene by Nicolaas Berghem, depicting: various peasant girls, children and a man milking a cow, further with a lamb beside a river, a tree to the background and Italianate architectural structures, the Delft noir ground bevelled border with canted corners, further decorated with flowerheads
26cm. wide

Lot Essay

c.f. D. and R. Aronson, Christie's Tefaf Basel brochure 1997, p. 36 for a discussion about Delft noir

See illustration and back cover

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