Details
Finely painted with a songbird inside a cage, surrounded by blue curtains, a courting couple walking down a promenade below, surmounted by three gilt-metal vase-form finials
1614 in. (41.2 cm.) wide
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 16 December 2002, lot 38.
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Lot Essay

Three similar plaques can be found at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, one of which is illustrated in J. Boyazoglu and L. de Neuville, Les Faiences de Delft, Paris, 1980, no. 40. Also compare the example illustrated in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Delft, München, 1984, p. 296, no. 310 in the Gemeentemuseum, Arnhem.

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