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Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue [1] (Dutch: Delfts blauw) or as delf, [2] is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery , and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major centre of production, but the term covers wares with other colours, and made ...
Delft blue is most famous but there are other kinds of Delftware, like this plate faience in rose. Delft is well known for the Delft pottery ceramic products [15] which were styled on the imported Chinese porcelain of the 17th century. The city had an early start in this area since it was a home port of the Dutch East India Company.
The Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles N.V. (trading publicly as Royal Delft) [1] is a Dutch manufacturer of Delftware, a type of earthenware, headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands. It is the only remaining factory out of 32 that were established in Delft during the 17th century.
Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg, 1593/94 – Delft, 7 March 1657) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who specialized in still lifes of flowers and fruit, as well as painting a number of remarkable shell still lifes; he is considered to be a pioneer in the genre of shell painting. His still lifes often contain insects and lizards.
Vliet, Hendrick Cornelisz van (Delft 1611/12 – Delft 1675) Vliet, Willem van der (Delft c. 1584 – Delft 1642) Vogelaer, Carel de (Maastricht 1653 – Rome 1695) Vois, Ary de (Utrecht 1632/34 – Leiden 1680) Vonck, Elias (Amsterdam c. 1605 – Amsterdam 1652) Vonck, Jan (ToruĊ 1631 – Amsterdam 1664) Voorhout, Johannes (Uithoorn 1647 ...
Old Holland is a company based in the Netherlands, that manufactures high-quality painting supplies. Founded in 1664, the company continues the heritage of Old Dutch Masters, making products that include: oil paint, watercolor paint, acrylic paint, auxiliaries, and pigments.
He became a successful painter in Delft, painting a prestigious group portrait for the Anatomy guild there, as well as a renowned painting for the Amsterdam Noordsche Compagnie, a northern branch of the Amsterdam Dutch East India Company. This unusual painting was a studio reconstruction of the factory in Spitsbergen, based on a Danish original ...
The painting depicts a quiet courtyard scene in which a young maid holds the hand of a small girl. The figures are posed, but the painting is not a portrait, nor is it a “snapshot” of life in 17th century Holland. The scene is divided into two sections. To the left, an archway leads from the courtyard into a passageway and through the house.