Delft – Pair of polychrome floral Delftware plates – 18th century

A pair of 18th-century Dutch Delft tin-glazed earthenware plates, in the “pancake” form: flat bodies with only a slightly everted rim and no footrim. Each plate is decorated in polychrome with a central bouquet of stylized flowers issuing from a basal mound, within a shallow cavetto, and framed by an inner band of alternating foliate sprigs. The palette combines manganese, blue, green, and yellow over a white tin-glaze ground, typical of mid-18th-century Delft production.

The floral ornamentation demonstrates influence from Chinese export porcelain, particularly “famille verte” flower sprays, adapted into the European decorative vocabulary of Dutch Delft potters. The cavetto design reflects the adaptation of baroque foliate patterns to the flat “pancake” plate form.

Condition: minor glaze wear, fritting, and small rim chips, consistent with age.

23 cm  (9 inch) in diameter.

Ships from the Netherlands with tracking and insurance.