Although the origins of Dutch Delftware lay partly in majolica, which was based on southern European models, the seventeenth century also shows a strong Chinese influence on the Dutch pottery. This has of course everything to do with the arrival of the Chinese porcelain on the Dutch market in the same century, which had an…
Every month we present you a special object from the Aronson Antiquairs’ collection. Since the herring season started two weeks ago in the Netherlands, how nice would it be to serve a herring on these beautiful 18th-century blue and white herring dishes? Although many foreigners find it hard to stomach, it is a typical Dutch…
Everyone knows the blue and white vases, plates and dishes, which were made in the seventeenth and eighteenth century in the city of Delft inspired by and sometimes direct imitations of Chinese porcelain. Although the arrival of the Chinese porcelain by the Dutch East India Company in the early seventeenth century influenced Dutch pottery enormously,…
Meijer Lavino (Rotterdam, 1937 – Antwerp, 2005) was the only child of Jewish parents. In 1964 he and Jo de Jong set up De Jong & Lavino, steel suppliers. In addition to his love of clocks, romantic paintings and rugs, between 1980 and 2002 he devoted himself with great passion to collecting Dutch Delftware. He…
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