A set of twelve Dutch Delft 'calendar' plates
19th Century, spuriously marked with an axe for De Porceleyne Bijl
The foliate-shaped plates identified each with the month on an oval cartouche, reserved on a figure scene in a landscape appropriate to the respective month, one restored, some losses to the glaze at the rims
24.5 cm. diam. (12)
A set of twelve Dutch Delft 'calendar' plates
19th Century, spuriously marked with an axe for De Porceleyne Bijl
The foliate-shaped plates identified each with the month on an oval cartouche, reserved on a figure scene in a landscape appropriate to the respective month, one restored, some losses to the glaze at the rims
24.5 cm. diam. (12)