UNKNOWN POTTER, Dutch
(active in 1650s in Delft)

Dish with a Winter Landscape

1650
Tin-glazed earhtenware, diameter 32 cm
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

The form of this dish, with its flat bottom, pronounced foot ring, rounded sides, and flared rim, is derived from the Chinese export porcelain shipped to the Netherlands beginning about 1600. Varying in profile from quite flat for shallow dishes to sharply curved for deeper ones, such wares are typical of the Delftware produced during the second half of the seventeenth century.




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