•D2417. Brown Glazed Teapot and Cover

Delft, circa 1700

Marked LVD in yellow for Lieve van Dalen, the owner of Het Jonge Moriaanshooft (The Young Moor’s Head) factory from 1692 to circa 1726

The spherical body with a brown ground painted in blue, red, white and yellow in a marble-like pattern, the short spout and loop handle with red and white scrollwork bands and a yellow flower on the top of the cover.

DIMENSIONS
Height: 8 cm. (3.1 in.)

PROVENANCE
Private Dutch Collection, 2023

NOTE
Japanese lacquer wares imported to the Netherlands were extremely popular at the end of the seventeenth century. Delft potters attempted to imitate the rare and lustrous brown ground color, although it proved to be quite challenging. Brown- ground Delft is extremely rare, even more so than Black Delft of which there are only about sixty- five known examples. The largest assemblage of ‘Brown Delft’ is in the Albert Evenepoël Collection at the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Brussels, which has sixteen pieces. Several Delft factories attempted to produce brown-ground wares, but the most successful was Het Jonge Moriaanshooft under the twenty-year proprietorship of Lieve van Dalen, whose mark appears on many of the surviving ‘Brown Delft’ wares, which include tea and table wares, various small useful wares and vases.