A DUTCH DELFT DATED RECTANGULAR BLUE AND WHITE PLAQUE

This plaque is one of three known dated examples which are probably painted by the same hand and are derived in part from a landscape engraving by Nicolaas Berchem (1620-1683). One of these, which is also rectangular, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, and depicts Elijah and the ravens with the cows to the right, and is illustrated by Jan Daniël van Dam, Delffse Porceleyne, Dutch Delftware 1620-1850, Amsterdam, 2004, p. 42, no. 16, where the author attributes it to the Delft painter and draughtsman Leonard Bramer (1596-1674). The other plaque (of octagonal shape) from the Glaisher Collection, is painted with only the group of cows and without any religious subject matter included, and is now is in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, museum no. C.2469-1928.