1700's Old Delft Ginger Jar Vase Delfts Blauw Vaas 花王 Kaou Pioen Peony Millefleur Blossoms Urn Bird Jug Porceleyne Claeuw Klaauw Netherlands

ANTIQUE 18TH/19th CENTURY DELFTS BLAUW GINGER JAR!

Strong cobalt blue hues painted with both bold and delicate brush strokes old tin glazed piece!

This is a popular pattern from that time period of Millefleurs & Bird. This particular interpretation includes larger groups of what I like to think are Tree Peonies from when Delft Potters were initially imitating Chinois patterns of the Ming Dynasty. The pattern is repeated 3 times.

The shoulder, rim collar and lid lip are decorated in Japanese Karakusa arabesque curlicues.

PIC 4 - ALSO BY THIS MAKER > LARGE DELFTS POLYCHROOM PEACOCK CHARGER >

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PIC 5 - DE PORCELEYNE KLAAUW TWO DELFT CHINOIS GINGER JARS >

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PIC 6 - ALSO BY THIS MAKER > LARGE DELFTS BLAUW MILLEFLEUR VASE >

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PIC 7 - LARGE APK DELFTS BLAUW MILLEFLEUR TUREEN & UNDERLINER >

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PIC 8 - LARGE APK DELFTS BLAUW MILLEFLEUR CACHE POT >

https://www.etsy.com/listing/496646579/apk-pynacker-keyser-large-rafraichissoir

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Would make a beautiful gift for MOM’S BIRTHDAY or a WOW HOUSEWARMING GIFT or a kewl addition to your personal collection.

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MARK - PIC 5c in underglaze blue

SPECS - about 13.75"H x 6.5"W

CONDITION - EXCELLENT!
- no hairlines, cracks, chips or flakes
- kiln-related faults of carbon spots, glaze pops and misses

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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Porseleine de Klaauw Info > 1658-1840
De Klaauw aka De Porseleine Klaauw - Porcelain Claw / A la Griffe (workshop active from 1661 - 1840), Koornmarkt, east side, immediately south-east of of the Oude Gasthuis church. At the very end of this main building, just across the Gasthuissteeg alley, there was a cluster of small houses (Gasthuissteeg 9, 11, 13) which had their back to two houses at Lange Breedstraat / Breedstraat nrs 18 and 20. The workshop thus occupied one large building and five small ones.
A wonderful 98 page publication by Hoekstra-Klein focuses on this workshop.
When this workshop was sold in 1740 the owner must have been wealthy as the description mentions a room in which walls were covered in Delftware; gold-tooled leather in the side room and dining room. He also owned large painted murals (probably landscapes) on linnen hung in the 'salet' and numerous paintings elsewere in the house, which included three paintings hung over chimneys.

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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 display 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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