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Older, beautifully hand painted LARGE DELFTS POLYCHROME OCTAGON GINGER JAR!

There are two main floral tableaus that flow into each other to completely cover the vase portraying a garden with a fence!

PIC 1 & 2
Depicts a parrot with yellow, green and ochre feathers perched on a branch. It's got a two feather crest. It appears to be cawing to the sky. The blossoms are round-petaled of yellows and ochre outlines, possibly a tree peony? The leaves are a dark green, dark manganese and the larger leaves are a bright delft blue. These blossoms seem to be growing out of a gnarly manganese caterpillar-looking thingy with two holes of white filled with green wavy lines. I've always wondered why/what the Dutch & faience painters were imitating from Ming pieces that would look so strange? I've come to the conclusion until someone can enlighten me, that they're a misinterpretation of a Chinese garden containing "taihu stones" that have grotesque and fantastical forms because they've eroded over the centuries! I've observed that the Dutch and faience painters flatteringly imitated the Ming, then the Qing imitated the Dutch to try and regain their lost market share...ha! Behind all this, is a yellow and green wooden fence.

PIC 3 & 4
Between Pic 2 and Pic 3, the garden opens up a bit, then continues with the second floral focus. This parrot differs somewhat insofar has its colors are yellow, green, ochre plus a bit of blue and it's body feathers a dark manganese. It only has a one feather crest. The tree peony blossoms in this group are not as large as previous panel. The tree peony appears to be growing out of a different set of taihu stones. The tree continues to branch to the right (pic 4) and we now see a Lyrebird. The Lyrebird is standing in a pool of water that is contained by another set of taihu stones that their holes are filled with white and an ochre "x." The Lyrebird is bright with yellow body feathers, blue and green wing feathers and its handsome tail is outlined in a bright/dark delft blue with the finer tail feathers are ochre.

The border patterns for both the large foot and the shoulders of the vase are medallions containing the same flowers in both borders. In between each medallion, seemingly floating unattached, are karakusa arabesque curlicues in ochre! (the neck is simply painted in wide ochre horizontal bands and then separated by 3 vertical green lines) The lid repeats the same border patterns and the finial is a simple knob in a bright/dark delft cobalt blue!

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SPECS: about 11 1/8”H x 6.25”W

CONDITION – Excellent!
- no hairlines, cracks or chips
- there are a few frits
- crazing is minimal

MY SUBJECTIVE GRADING GUIDE >

Outstanding - pristine, like new
Excellent - excellent considering it's an antique (minor issues)
Good - moderate issues
Fair - more than moderate issues, okay for display, but not a prized piece
Poor - major issues = a bargain deserving of continued existence

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Delft Chargers were highly sought after display pieces as an alternative to framed oil paintings. Royalty, nobility, wealthy merchants and even rich farmers acquired these examples of hand painted art! Many of the depicted themes were actually copies of popular (now famous) original oil paintings of the Dutch artists and masters. The other themes primarily were Chinois patterns copied from the Ming imports. When rich farmers held a large celebration, they would clear out the barn and then hang Delft Chargers either on the horse stalls or the walls of the barn as part of the party decor for the rustic party venue!

“Old Delft” was expensive and acquired to flaunt their owner's status and wealth by displaying in their formal dining rooms and other public rooms of their estates. These Delft pieces were exported all over the Western world including the New World as found in Williamsburg and other colonial towns in both North and South America. Delft manufacturers were threatened by Chinese imports, but when China went through their times of troubles and the kilns destroyed and potters killed, the Delft makers capitalized on the sudden rarity of Chinese exports and imitated Ming and Wanli/Kraak patterns to supply the continually growing demand. Eventually Delft potters began using their own patterns and incorporating what has become “iconic” themes of Dutch Windmills, Canals, Nautical and Biblical renditions. When the Chinese Imperial government stabilized, kilns were rebuilt, but found they had lost most of their market share. To regain that share, they began copying the Dutch designs. The humor in all this, is that many of the Dutch designs were copies of Chinese patterns! With all these cross-copying of patterns, meaning was lost and “fanciful” unreal patterns resulted!

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July 4th Independence Day > USA
July 21st Liberation Day WWII > GUAM/USA
Sep 14th Liberation Day WWII > MAASTRICHT, NL

Just wanted to take the opportunity to share this regarding WWII and the people of Holland in regards to the people of the US >

Near Maastricht, in Margraten, is the Netherlands American Cemetery. It is the only American military cemetery in Holland and where 8,301 of our soldiers rest eternal. There are Tablets of the Missing that contain 1,722 names. It's a beautiful and fitting resting place. I mention this because, we visited in 2010 and it was early May just after Koninginnedag (Queen's Birthday) as we were meeting a Dutch aunt who's married to a German citizen and they live in Germany and Maastricht is the halfway point from where we were staying. We were surprised and amazed at the thousands of visitors and the fresh flowers on EVERY GRAVE! It turns out, that ever since the cemetery was first created, every US Soldier's grave had been adopted by a nearby local family (also Belgian and German families across the border) and is visited several times a year and flowers laid and the soldier honored and remembered on certain holidays! It brought us to tears that after all this time, that the Dutch continue to honor and remember our soldier's ultimate sacrifice in helping to liberate their country! Thank you to the anonymous Dutch, Belgian, and German families who remember and honor our fallen!

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I'm not an expert on Porcelain. The information above is based on my research as a collector. It's time to downsize and find an appreciative home for this exquisite piece!

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