Gilt Delft plate with Chinese motif, Grieksche manufacture, circa 1700

Beautiful and rare Delftware plate
imitating Imari porcelain from Japan.
Decorated with exquisite low-fire decoration highlighted in gold, depicting a palace scene of a princess with her servant in a palace garden with pagodas in the background and lush vegetation.

In perfect condition.

Factory mark "De Grieksche A," Pieter Adriaenszoon Kockx period, Delft 1701-1722

Diameter: 22 cm

Pieces from the same service:

-Art Institute of Chicago, Inv. 1884-879
-Kunstmuseum, The Hague, no. 79004217

Our opinion:

This exquisite piece, commonly known as "Delft gilt," aimed to imitate the prestigious Imari porcelain from Japan, imported into Europe by the Dutch East India Company.
The exquisite decoration, combining cobalt blue and iron red, enhanced by a second firing at a low temperature for the green glazes and gold highlights, testifies to the perfect technical mastery of the Delft workshops. Heirs to a long tradition in the art of earthenware, they managed in the 18th century to rival the most sought-after Oriental porcelains visually.
Our plate perfectly illustrates this European fascination with the Far East, where Dutch manufacturers masterfully adapted Japanese designs to Western tastes while developing their own decorative language, freer and often more narrative.