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A rare early Tichelaar Makkum painted with a folk art exuberance. The underside carries a hand-painted blue mark in the manner of the early Tichelaar Makkum monogram used from around 1890, dating the piece to the period when the workshop was turning decisively toward decorative tin-glazed earthenware.
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 turned from bricks and tiles toward decorative tin-glazed earthenware in the Delft tradition. Its hand-painted polychrome wares are prized by collectors for their distinctive Frisian palette and their continuation of historic Dutch painting methods.