It is my pleasure to offer you this jug shaped vase in Delft Blue and produced by The Royal PORCELEYNE FLES n Delft The Netherlands.
De Porceleyne Fles was founded in 1653 however it got famous when Joost Thooft took over this small factory at Delft in 1876. He produced traditional blue on white Delft ware and tile tableaus but with a new technique.
The painters of Royal Delft are trained in the factory starting off with simple designs in blue/white on the smaller pieces. A painter first has to learn how to paint the little flowers and leaves that so characteristically adorn Delftware vases and the borders of Delftware plates. The painters then gradually progress to larger pieces with more complicated designs. Only the master painters, who have trained at the Royal Academy of Arts in The Hague paint the elaborate landscape and Dutch masters pieces.
This is such a professionally painted vase with a typical Dutch landscape in many shades of blue. This model was called "buikje" (bulge) and appeared in the pricelist in 1918. It is a very popular model and was still produced recently.
Fully marked on the bottom with the yearmark CJ (=1965), the Royal Delft Logo, The stylized JT of Joost Thooft and the painters initials YBu.
Lit. refs: (a) "De Porceleyne Fles, de Wedergeboorte van een Delftse Aardewerkfabriek" by Bogaers, Gaillard en Ten Horn-Van Nispen (1986), (b) "Royal Delft, a guide to De Porceleyne Fles" by Rick Erickson (2003) and (c) "1653-2003 From Pottery to Royal Delft" by Jessica van Erkel & Arnold de Koster (2003).
The Porceleijne Fles is still operational and with the renewed interest in Delft Blue it is very much alive. Nowadays (new) list price indication of this item: over US$330.
AGE: 1977
DIMENSIONS: Height is 9.5 inches, widest diameter is 5,5 inches.
CONDITION: EXCELLENT. This vase is in PERFECT condition. No cracks, chips, flakes or any other flaws.
The white spots on some pictures are the reflection of my photo lights.
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