D725. Blue and White Plate

Delft, circa 1725

Painted with a scene of figures in a tavern, one play- ing a horn, the others drinking, smoking, playing cards and engaged in other merrymaking activities beneath a chandelier suspended from a fringed drapery above, the rim with a border of floral and scroll devices suspended from foliate panels interrupting a dotted trellis diaper band.

Diameter
22.4 cm. (8.8 in.)