D923. Polychrome and Gilded Plate

Delft, circa 1715

Marked WK in iron-red probably for Willem Jacobusz. van der Kool, the owner of de Drie Porceleyne Flessies (The Three Porcelain Bottles) factory from 1702 to 1716 or his widow from 1717 to 1745. 

Painted within a whorl-edged roundel with a tall vase of peonies between two birds perched either on grass above an unfurled scroll or on a ledge beside a small- er beaker of flowers, the rim with a border of foliate lappets and scrolls.

Diameter
22.5 cm.(8.8 in.)