(Q34056)

The body lightly molded on the front and reverse with an oval panel edged in yellow dots and a green band andpainted on the front with a bird in flight above the pavilion in a Chinese landscape, and on the reverse with flowering plants, each surrounded by four clusters of iron-red and white flowers and green and yellow foliage; the sides with an insect flitting above further flowering plants and a blue stylized rock, the shoulder with a red scroll and green foliate device on each corner, and the circular cover painted on the top with a blossom formed by a yellow hatchwork center issuing three red and white petals alternating with three leaves and scrolls within a yellow-dotted edge, and on the flutted sides with pendent leaves and red-dotted white buds. (Engels)

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Note: ‘Black Delft’ was the rarest production of a very few Dutch Delft factories during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century when the taste for the exotic thrived. These black-glazed Delftwares were inspired by Oriental and subsequent European lacquer wares as well as by Chinese ‘famille noire’ porcelain of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), both the so-called ‘mirror black’ type with its lustrous monochromatic ground, often left undecorated or ornamented only in gilding, and the type decorated in a ‘famille verte’ palette of predominantly green enamel. On Chinese porcelain pieces without a black ground, the ‘famille verte’ palette also included iron red, yellow, aubergine, black and overglaze and underglaze blue – and it was with this full palette of colors that the Delft potters sought to enliven the gleaming dark glaze of their ‘Black Delft’. (Engels)

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