RARE! Delft 4 Tile Tableau "Women Baking Pancakes" naar after Adriaen de Lelie Framed Wall Plaque Art Delfts Blauw Tegeltableau Netherlands

Beautifully detailed DELFTS BLAUW 4-TILE TABLEAU!

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"As in the painting Morning Visit, in this kitchen, too, an old man is preparing to smoke his pipe. A young woman has just entered and a boy stands in the door opening, both perhaps enticed by the smell of pancakes. Because of the young woman’s attire, this interior makes a more contemporary impression than Morning Visit."

Adriaen de Lelie - 19 May 1755 in Tilburg – 30 November 1820 in Amsterdam

c. 1790 - c. 1810 oil on panel h 52.5cm × w 42cm × d 6.5cm

The original oil on panel painting on display at the Rijksmuseum.

The original painting has more to this scene, but I'll leave the other details of this tableau and the original oil painting for the new owners to spend hours discovering!

The bottom left tile in the the painting border, the tile states "naar: Adriaen de Lelie" and then "Delfts Blauw." (Dutch > naar = "after")

The bottom right tile just inside the painting border in the corner is a stylized tulip indicating unknown maker?

With that being said, I believe these were never meant for export, only for the Dutch domestic market.

These tile tableaus by this maker are rarely offered for sale. When they are, prices are from $450-$750!!!!

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Searching for that PERFECT TILE TABLEAU/Tiles? Have a look in my shop with numerous examples -

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Would make a fine addition to your personal collection and displays well as an antique!

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SPECS -
Tiles - each about 5.9375"sq.
Wood Frame - about 13.875"sq x 1"H

CONDITION - EXCELLENT!
TILES
- in excellent condition
- very few and very minute "frits" here and there on the outer edges
- crazing is minimal here and there
- no hairlines, cracks, chips or flakes
- held at an angle in certain lighting, scratches are few and minute
FRAME
- minute signs of age/use

My SUBJECTIVE grading guide >

Outstanding - pristine, like new
Excellent - excellent as it's antique/vintage (minor issues)
Good - moderate issues
Fair - more than moderate issues, okay for display, but not a prized piece
Poor - major issues = 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” were expensive and mostly used 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!