D1736. Polychrome Plate

Delft, circa 1750

Painted in blue, green, yellow, iron-red and manganese with an exotic bird perched on a flowering branch amidst an abundance of flowers, such as peonies, lilies and an iris, a fluttering insect and a pair of long-tailed birds in flight, and three ducks in the water, the upstanding rim decorated with an iron-red trellis diaper border reserved with eight floral panels.

Marked AIK in iron-red for Jacob van der Kool, the owner of De Grieksche A (The Greek A) factory from 1722 to 1757

Diameter
22.1 cm. (8.7 in.)