Antique Ceramics & Dutch Delftware
A Pair of `Petit - Feu´ Baluster - form Vases and Covers in Polychrome Dutch Delftware
Beginning 18th century, The Netherlands
Earthenware
Sizes
(height) 11.8 in
(height) 30 cm
Pair of Vases
These two vases are decorated in overglaze enamel, or ´Petit Feu´ colours. This means that the painter added this decoration on the already glazed and fired surface in colours that cannot resist a high+temperature firing . This decoration was submitted to a much cooler firing in a muffle kiln. This proces was much more costly than a single firing, but abled the decorator to use a broader scale of smoother colours. The body of these delicate vases are decorated with rococoframes devided in panels; two panels on the front and on the back with a lady a landscape, two panels on the sides depicting a man in a garden, two panels with a bird amidst flowering plants, two panels with a flowers near a fence. The bottom, neck and cover are decorated with shells and floral scatters. The cover is modelled with a flower and leaves.
