Tichelaar Makkum handpainted Delft blue wall plate (tin glaze)

Medium sized (22 x 21 cm) handpainted tin-glazed Delft blue dish / plate made by Tichelaar in Makkum, the Netherlands. The plate has a hexagonal (six-sided) shape with an accoladed edge. The plate has an intricate geometric decoration of Delft style leaf and flower ornaments, painted in various shades of blue. The painting is of high quality. The plate has two small holes in its footring for hanging it on a wall.

The plate is signed on the back with a handpainted Tichelaar Makkum mark (used between 1948 and 1979), a model / catalogue number (814) and the painter's signature (J.V., from Mr Jetze Visser, who worked from approximately 1945 till at least 1960 as a painter at Tichelaar).

This dish is handmade according to century-old traditions identical to how 17th or 18th century Delftware was made. The earthenware (made from local yellow clay) is shaped by hand and after a first firing glazed with an opaque white tin-glaze. The colours are then painted on this glaze and fused with it through a second firing. This creates a product with a beautiful and unique appearance. Tichelaar is the only remaining Delftware producer in the Netherlands that still follows this procedure.

Condition: excellent, as new except for a few tiny spots on the edge of the dish where the glaze is missing (see the detail pictures). These spots are hardly noticeable and are often seen on older tin-glazed ceramics, because tin-glaze is very brittle on edges. Aside from this, the glaze is in an excellent condition, without any visible wear or crazing and with a beautiful gloss. The backside of the dish also shows a few unglazed stilt marks, these are marks from the stilts where the plate was resting upon while being fired in the oven. These marks are part of the normal production process and are not a defect.

A beautiful and very well painted dish, great to hang on the wall, but also nice on its own in a plate stand. The perspex plate stand that is featured in the photos will be included with the dish.

Made by: Royal Tichelaar

Place of manufacture: Makkum, the Netherlands

Year of manufacture: 1950s or 1960s

Model (catalog) nr.: 814

Method of decoration: handpainted (tin-glaze)

Size: height: 22,3 cm, width: 21,4 cm, depth: 3,5 cm

Weight: 300 g

Additional pictures of the object can be provided if required.

Current catalogue price: not available, this exact model is not being offered anymore by Tichelaar today. You can find the current price for other bowls, plates and dishes on the website of Tichelaar here: https://www.tichelaar.com/shop/fine-ceramics

----------------------------------------------------------------------

About Tichelaar:

Royal Tichelaar is located in a small fishing village in the north of the Netherlands, Makkum. The history of the company goes way back to 1572, making it the oldest continuously operating company in the Netherlands. Tichelaar means "tile-maker", and at first the factory only produced bricks and tiles, but around 1700 production also started of tin-glazed household and ornamental dishes. After 1890 a large part of the production became oriented towards ornamental Delftware in various forms and styles. Tichelaar uses a yellow baking clay for their products, which is locally excavated. After baking it receives a white tin-glaze and is subsequently decorated. This is the way all Delftware was produced centuries ago, and Tichelaar is the only remaining factory to still do so. Other Delftware producers in the Netherlands around 1900 switched to painting directly on white baking clay without the extra layer of tin-glaze. True to the spirit of tradition, Tichelaar keeps mechanisation to a minimum and all items remain handpainted. The quality of the handpainting is very good, it has a distinctive "Frisian" character that is very recognisable.

Tichelaar today still produces Delftware, but on a limited scale. The traditional production process makes that the items are nowadays very costly to produce, and for many too expensive to buy. There is no production for stock anymore, but items are still produced in batches for larger orders or for individual orders accumulated through their website (about 4x per year). The company nowadays has its main focus on producing speciality tiles, with special glazes for architecture / building purposes. More information can be found on their website: https://www.tichelaar.com/.

----------------------------------------------------------------------

This beautiful item will be carefully packed and send by tracked and insured mail.

If you buy multiple items from our shop in one purchase, we will try to combine the items into one parcel. Any excess shipping costs will be refunded.

If you are not satisfied with your purchase, you may contact us within 14 days from the delivery date to return the item. If the item is returned in its original condition, we will issue a refund for the total purchase price of the item (return shipping costs are however not covered).