Wednesday 18 April 2012

Plate




This plate is in the Vlieland family for years .



It has a bird and crown and a gold F in script on the front.
That is what Gilly told me already in 2000 .
Looking at the picture 12 years later  I still have not found anything else .





It was made of Hard Paste Porcelain. It is either Chinese export or more probably French. The French were trying to copy the Chinese original at this time so it is hard to tell. It is either late 1780s or early 1790s. The decoration is French, hand painted and is a pattern of sprigs typical of this period in France, later being copied at English works.
Is it Delft or is it Quimper or is it English.?
Who can tell us more .
Gran always insisted that “Catherine, JNV mother was the daughter of a French Count De Verie and that the plate was from that line of the family.


No comments: