Dish with flowers and birds
Unknown
ca. 1660 · Tin-glazed earthenware with cobalt blue pigment (Delftware) · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Most likely introduced from the Islamic world, where it had developed in the ninth century in response to imported Chinese ceramics, the use of a tin-based glaze to cover a dark earthenware body has a long history in Europe. Here, the tin glaze is painted with blue pigment on a plate whose shape and design parallel Chinese kraak ware.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1660
- Medium
- Tin-glazed earthenware with cobalt blue pigment (Delftware)
- Culture
- Dutch, Delft
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1930
