D922. Polychrome and Gilded Plate

Delft, circa 1715

Painted in the center with a butterfly surrounded by four cranes in flight within ruyi-head lappets alternating with floral and foliate-scroll devices, the rim with a cell diaper and blossom border interrupted with four panels of butterflies.

Marked WK in iron-red probably for Willem Jacobusz. van der Kool, the owner of de Drie Porceleyne Flessies (The Three Porcelain Bottles) factory from 1702 to 1716 or his widow from 1717 to 1745.

Diameter
22.4 cm. (8.1 in.)