Delftware

Royal Delft Blue and Colored Decorative Earthenware of the Royal Porcelain Bottle Anno 1653

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For the manufacturing of Delft pottery the clay ingredients are carefully selected. In 1653 at the start of the Royal Delft Porcelain Bottle, yellow-baking clay was used, which after having been baked, was first covered with tin-glaze and then were painted with crushed oxides.
During the second baking in the oven came the color.

A century later, they moved on to white-baking clay, like the English example of Wedgwood.
This gave the opportunity to paint directly after the first baking and then immersing it in enamel for the second bake.

The photo shows the right vase is painted with cobalt and that still looks black-gray. After the glaze is applied in unfired state it is opaque as you can see on the left vase. Now the products go into the oven for the second time to come out to like the blue cup in the middle of the picture.

A surprisingly beautiful process.

You can recognize the original Delft decorative pottery by its logo that is ingrained on each article.

A pharmacy bottle, including the intertwined initials JT, of Joost Thooft, the owner of the company in 1876 and the word Delft written in this manner.

Left of the mark, you see the initials of the painter, and to the right, two letters indicate the
code years.

That mark is the guarantee of genuine, entirely hand painted Delft earthenware of "The Royal Delft Porcelain Bottle".
Netherlands: "Royal Delft - Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles".

Delft Blue Earthenware

The world-renowned Delftware, inspired by Chinese motifs, has for centuries been completely hand painted.

Refined flower leaf and vines motifs, interspersed with ornamental birds or typical Dutch landscapes and seascapes, are still the subjects of the painting of the pottery of the "Royal Delft" as it was in the 17th century.

Under the sub-button Delft Blue find this blue and most famous collection.

Delft Polychrome Earthenware

Polychrome is the name for the Royal Delft pottery of the Porcelain Bottle whose primary colors are formed by blue, yellow, green and red.

The origin of these Majolika colors were already in use in the 17th century.

The knowledge about the application of these colors came from the countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea.

Under the sub-button Delft Polychrome you can find this colorful collection.

Delft Black Earthenware

Black Delft, also known as the “the wondrous black of Delft”, was a type of pottery at the end of the 17th century which could only be produced by just a few, highly skilled, Delft potteries.

"The Royal Delft" brought this collection again in 1978 to mark the 325 anniversary of the company. Vibrant Delft colors on a lacquer black background. A beautiful product, with refined, oriental expression.

Under the sub-button Delft BLack you will find this collection, also called "Famile Noir".

Delft Pynacker Earthenware

Pynacker is the name of the Delft earthenware mainly painted with the colors red, blue and gold.

Originally traced back to the Japanese Imari porcelain, which was brought to the Netherlands by the ships of the VOC in the 17th century, the painters of "The Royal Delft" developed it into products with its own unique, individual beauty.

Pynacker pottery goes into the oven three times.
The first the mould is baked out of clay.
The second time, it is baked after the painting with the colors red and blue, with applicated glaze, and, finally, it is baked for the third time after the gold has been applied, this because the 24-carat gold it is not resistant at high baking temperatures.

You can find these products under the sub-button Delft Pynacker.

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