Ram Arnhem medium to large handpainted Delft blue wall plate
Beautiful medium to large sized (30,4 cm diameter) Delft wall plate made by Plateelbakkerij Ram in Arnhem, the Netherlands. The plate is handpainted underglaze in Delft blue style and features a display of Delft style flowers with an insect. The contoured edge is elegantly decorated with ornaments. The painting is of excellent quality.
The plate is signed at the backside with a handpainted "Ram" mark, which in this form was used after 1935. There are also the classifications "Delfts Blauw" (Delft Blue) and "Made in Holland". The prominent underlined "E" on top of the mark can be either a painter's signature, a model / decoration code or a year code. The small marks on the lower side of the mark (below "Made in Holland") could perhaps also be a painter's signature (SD SD) or maybe just some ornamentation.
The plate has two holes in its footring with a metal wire through it to hang it on a wall.
Condition: excellent. There are no damages, cracks or hairlines and there is no visible wear to the glaze. The glaze shows a very light crazing, which is normal for Delftware of this age and just adds charm to the piece. The glaze has a beautiful gloss. There are three stilt marks visible on the back, which are marks from the stilts where the plate was resting upon when it was fired in the oven. This is a normal production artefact of artisanal plates such as these and should not be considered a defect.
A rare and very beautiful Delft plate of very high quality. A great item for the true Delftware collector.
Made by: Plateelbakkerij Ram
Place of manufacture: Arnhem, the Netherlands
Year of manufacture: between 1935 and 1969, most likely between 1945 and 1960
Method of decoration: handpainted (underglaze)
Size: diameter: 30,4 cm, depth: 4,0 cm
Weight: 900 g
Additional pictures of the object can be provided if required.
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About Ram:
Plateelbakkerij Ram was a pottery founded in 1921 in Arnhem, in the east of the Netherlands. One of the founders was the well-known architect, designer and ceramist Theo Colenbrander, who by then was already 80 years old and had worked previously as a designer and artistic director at the famous art pottery Rozenburg in The Hague.
In the first few years Ram (named after the Aries constellation) produced only art pottery designed by Colenbrander. From 1925 onwards the production was supplemented with more mainstream pottery and tiles. Production of Colenbrander designs ceased in 1928 because of the old age of the designer. During the 1930s and 1940s the company went through several bankruptcies, but each time was restarted. Production continued with about 10 to 15 painters employed during the 1960s. In 1969 the factory was closed.
Ram produced good quality Delftware, in blue and white, polychrome and red and white styles. The quality of the handpainting was good, comparable with that of De Porceleyne Fles.
More information about the Ram pottery can be found here (in Dutch): https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plateelbakkerij_Ram.
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