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This dish is from an ensemble of four which flanked two smaller and two larger trapeziform dishes so that their sides fitted, with an elongated octagonal dish placed in the middle. The set was used as a table centrepiece holding numerous pickled or possibly sweet titbits accompanying a main course or dessert.
The dish was made in the Het Jonge Moriaenshooft faience factory in Delft which, together with the adjoining Het Oude Moriaenshooft, was run by the Hoppesteyn family from the mid-1660s. All the faience produced in Delft was decorated in blue until around 1670, because there was a demand for objects resembling the blue and white porcelain that was imported from China. Shortly after 1680, Het Moriaenshooft started experimenting with colour. The dishes of the set are multicoloured in the glaze and decorated in overglaze red and gold.
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