A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE

CIRCA 1810-30, UTRECHT

Details

A DUTCH DELFT BLUE AND WHITE RECTANGULAR PLAQUE
CIRCA 1810-30, UTRECHT
Depicting a Winter golfing scene, with figures in conversation donning skates on a frozen lake beside a house on a cliff-top in wooded landscape (slight chipping to rims)
8¾ x 6 in. (22.4 x 15.5 cm.)

Provenance

With J. Baijer, Kunsthandel, Oudegracht, D.59, Utrecht (according to paper label).
Sotheby's Chester, 15 July 1991, lot 356.

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Lot Essay

The Dutch pictorial tradition of winter landscapes with figures enjoying various activities on the ice was developed by Henrick Avercamp (1585-1634), but it proved a popular subject well into the 19th Century. For a pair of similar plaques made in Utrecht with winter skating scenes and landscapes, emblematic of Summer and Winter, see Robert D. Aronson and Suzanne M.R. Lambooy, Dutch Delftware, Plaques: A Blueprint of Delft, Amsterdam, 2009, p. 47, no. 21.

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