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Florian's vase is built on a ribbed octagonal body, its surface divided into alternating panels: flowering vases worked in graded blues set against panels of foliage. The scheme is drawn straight from the classic Delft blue repertoire — a chinoiserie composition that European potters built from imported Chinese porcelain and then made their own.
What distinguishes the painting is its range. A single Makkum master painter worked the whole surface in cobalt alone, from pale, watered washes to deep saturated blue tones. The underside carries the hand-painted Tichelaar Makkum shield mark with a model number and a painter's initial, the form the Frisian workshop used through the mid-twentieth century.
About Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Royal Tichelaar Makkum is the oldest company in the Netherlands, based in the Frisian town of Makkum, where a brickworks on the site is documented as early as 1572. The Tichelaar family has run the pottery since the seventeenth century, and from around 1890 concentrated on decorative tin-glazed earthenware in the Delft tradition. Its hand-painted blue-and-white and polychrome wares are valued by collectors for their crisp draftsmanship and faithful continuation of historic Dutch methods.