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D2301 Polychrome Molded Small Dish Or Crespina

D2301 Polychrome Molded Small Dish or Crespina

Haarlem, circa 1650 Attributed to Willem Jansz. Verstraeten, Verstraeten Workshop The convex center painted in egg-yolk yellow, manganese and blue with a cherub wearing only a sash around his waist, his left hand on his hip and his right supporting an orb, and standing amidst low shrubbery within a yellow roundel delineated with manganese and ochre lines around the fluted cavetto, the rim press- molded with diamonds and circlets and painted with four bird-form grotesques among scrolling floral and foliate vines, all within an ochre-dashed yellow border on the scalloped rim, the reverse tin-glazed. Dimension Diameter: 15.5 cm. (6.1 in.)
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