走近以色列:SHEPHERD and FLOCK on 16?" Plate PORCELEYNE FLES

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Handpainted SHEPHERD and FLOCK on 16.5" Plate PORCELEYNE FLES

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It is my pleasure to offer you this magnificent handpainted Delft wall plate produced by The Royal Porceleyne Fles in 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.
As early as 1878 and 1879 contemporary Dutch artists entered into agreement with the Porceleyne Fles to allow their paintings to be copied. Landscapes were introduced to production, soon followed by genre paintings. Josef Israëls, Johannes Bosboom, Frederik Jacob van Rossum du Chattel, Anton Mauve, Otto Eerelmann, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag (all members of the artist's society "Pulchri Studio" in The Hague) played an important role. Contacts were easy because Adolf Lecomte, the artistic leader of The Porceleyne Fles was the brother in law of Anton Mauve.
This is a marvellous plate after a painting of Hendrik van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1795-1860) who lived in The Hague. He mainly painted landscapes and cattle. As a youngster he already often sketched in the countryside and was highly inspired by the 17th century painter Paulus Potter. Pakhuyzen was one of the most successful painters of his era. His accurate observation of nature and his attention for the play of light and atmosphere were quite modern at that time. Therefor he is seen as a fore-runner of "De Haagse School", together with his pupil Willem Roelofs.
This painting is called "Landscape Overijssel" ans shows a shepherd with her flock. It is marked at the front with "naar v.d. Sande - Bakhuyzen". Further fully marked at the back with the yearmark CU (=1975), the Royal Delft Logo, The stylized JT of Joost Thooft and the master painter's initials V.GI ( = J. vande Giessen, who worked at De Porceleyne Fles from 1962 until recently).
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).
AGE: 1975
DIMENSIONS: Diameter is 16.5 inches (=42 cm).
CONDITION: EXCELLENT. This plate is in PERFECT condition. No cracks, chips, flakes or any other flaws.
A real treasure for any TOP QUALITY HANDPAINTED DELFT Collection.
The white spots on some pictures are the reflection of my photo lights. GUARANTEE:
All items are guaranteed to be AUTHENTIC and in the state as described above, consistent with age and use.