Details
In the Chinoiserie taste, the black-ground body painted front and back in blue, red, green, yellow and white with an oval landscape medallion of either a landscape or figure in a garden, the sides with birds perched on flowering branches issuing from blue rockwork
4 in. (10.1 cm.) high, the ceramic
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, Amsterdam, 30 May 2001, lot 452.
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Inspired by lacquer from Asia, black grounds on Dutch delftware such as this were the most difficult to produce and are only found in small quantities, with approximately only 60 known today.

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