D1781. Polychrome Plate

Delft, circa 1760

Painted in shades of blue in the center with three shepherdesses and their flock of sheep making wreaths of flowers standing on a river bank near a tree, the rim decorated in blue, yellow, iron-red, green and manganese with oral motifs alternated at the bottom with a panel in blue of a fisherman on a river bank, and flanked above by two blue putti.

Diameter
22.7 cm. (8.9 in.)