Product lines present Delft Blue

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1 Product lines During the centuries Royal Delft introduced a great number of product lines of which some were taken out of production again. Here under you will find a summary of the most important product lines with a short description present Delft Blue By far the most well known and largest collection. The products are decorated in blue on a white background. The motifs find their roots in the Chinese porcelain from the Ming and K ang Hsi dynasties. Typically Dutch land- and seascapes have also been often been used ever since Even as today our Delft Blue collection comprises many different plates, vases, jars, candleholders etc. and also the wooden shoe and Dutch cow are not missing Jars made for Lucas Bols The geneva distillery Erven Lucas Bols was one of the first industrial purchasers. They initially ordered large quantities standard blue-decorated geneva bottles, but later special models in earthenware and porcelain were designed present Tile paintings They started with paintings in blue after members of the Hague School, such as Springer, Mauve, Mesdag, Josef Israëls and Leickert. Later also colored tile paintings were made. Special tile paintings are custom made as today.

2 Berbas Hand turned vases and jars were mad from domestic clay and decorated exclusively with richly variegated opaque running glazes Reflet Métallique Soon a new style were derived from Berbas. This was Relfet Métallique, which was characterized by the metallic sparkle of the glazes with gold, bronze an other metals Round plaques Ceramic technically seen a very special product with diameters of cm. Mostly painted with a portrait in brown (Sepia) Jacoba earthenware Objects made from Dutch clay and decorated with partly abstract, partly floral and partly figurative patterns based on designs by Adolf Le Comte. The images in relief were scored in the still soft clay using a pointed stick and the resulting indentation was filled up with colored oxides and metal glazes Tin-glazed earthenware

3 With this manufactory of this earthenware De Porceleyne Fles was reverting to the 17th century traditions of the early Delft potters. The objects were first coated in a layer of tin glaze and were then painted. Made in blue and multi colored techniques present Tiles These were made in many different sizes and depictions. The production of this large tiles lasted until In 1983 the production again was started until today Tableware Jugendstil tableware : Most probably made from lime earthenware and was not suitable for use. The glaze was pale pink and the Jugendstil patters were usually in yellow, green and purple. Doorniks tableware : Surprisingly similar to the : Alt Luxemburg tableware mady by Villeroy en Boch.The production was discontinued one year after its introduction but again made in the period 'Empire' : Extremely stylish tableware with a black and yellow decoration on a cream background. Cow tableware : The pieces were decorated with a black and white cow standing in water among reeds next to a pollard willow. This cow tableware was also produced in blue in the year 'Blue Delft tableware' After the experiments mentioned above, in 1915 Royal Delft began producing tableware with ornamentation Porselein biscuit

4 Porcelain biscuit was made from matt, unglazed porcelain and was decorated with abstract, stylized incisions filled up with gold in combination with green, red, blue or back slip layers. This method was also called 'pate-sur-pate' Pijnacker This technique is rooted in Japanese Imari porcelain. It is mainly decorated in red, blue and 24 carat gold present Polychroom This multicolored technique may be considered to be the successor of Italian Majolica, which was produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. This technique is decorated in yellow, green, blue and reddish brown present Commemorative plates To celebrate the birth of Princess Juliana of the Netherlands on 30 April 1909, a commemorative plate decorated in blue was produced. This was the start of a tradition that still exists today for all kinds of events New Delft

5 As the name suggests, this was a complete new product in terms of decoration and manufacture. A dark firing clay was first coated with a white engobe layer upon which the painted decoration was applied. A transparent glaze was then applied. The decoration was inspired by patterns on Persion pots dating from the 12 th and 13 th centuries Cloisonné tiles The cloisonné tiles probably came about by combining the sectile technique (1900) with the crystal-glazed tiles for the building industry (1902). The tiles varied in size from 10 x 15 cm to 20 x 29 cm. Sometimes as many as 15 to 20 different, specially made glazes had to be applied to the individual segments, and as this was extremely laborious and timeconsuming De Porceleyne Fles was forced to stop making cloisonné tiles in These tiles are now highly collectible White Delft Started in the thirties. Because of the economic depression and the outbreak of the Second World War the marketing of the hand painted earthenware stagnated. At the end of the sixties the total collections consisted of more than 174 different models. In 1976 the production was stopped. In 1986 a small collection again was production which was less cream-colored. At present only the tulip vases are made in White Delft Decor Oosterloo (OS)

6 W.D. Oosterloo, designer of a collection 21 pieces of blue Delftware. The characteristic feature of the collection is the lavish decoration with seemingly round leaves, circular stalk patterns and round flowers Red Craquelé This technique entailed three firing processes: first the biscuit firing, then the smooth firing, and then a third firing after the application of the decoration to the glaze. The striking red color was obtained by allowing oxygen into the kiln during the cooling stage Sandelfo The abstract figural grey and black decorations were created by H.J. Sanders Delvert Contraction of the French word for green (Vert) and the city of Delft. In the small quantities produced this color prove to be very unstable, so the manufacture of this series was suspended in From 1991 till 1994 a small Delvert collection with models form the Blue Delftware collection was brought our onto the market again.

7 Delsepia A small collection whose name was derived from its brownish-purple color (sepia). The decoration was applied to an opaque glaze in the same way as the tin-glazed earthenware Zwart Blue, red and yellow are applied on a black background. This technique was introduced ath the 325th anniversary of the factory. Derived from the Famille Noire made by various potters in the 17 th century. Also known as the wondrous Black Delft Delflore This collection of earthenware was based on existing blue delftware models. It was covered with a matt glaze on which a lively decoration in turquoise, green and brown was applied.

8 Marrant Figural images in a decorative border (design Nicolaas Berchem) were applied to a layer of so-called sinter-engobe. This new collection did not catch on and only 8 models were issued in series Jubilee Introduced at the 350th anniversary, Royal Delft, brought out a new earthenware collection based on a set of dishes made by the factory De Witte Starre in around present nijntje The World known Miffy in Blue Delftware. This collection is made in hand painted and handmade earthenware present New Delft New Delft tableware has been developed based on the authentic combination of power and value of the 17th century Delftware factories in Delft.The modern & contemporary design is the product of a cooperation between Jacob de Baan, Marjet Wessels Boer and Margit Seland.The decoration however is inspired by centuries-old trademarks and the classical punch ring, visible on the bottom of Delftware pieces.