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The vase came out of the Tichelaar workshop in Makkum, painted by hand in the polychrome Delft manner. Stylised flowers, curling leaves and mirrored motifs run unbroken around the body in cobalt, brick red and a muted green, set on a warm ivory glaze. The hand is sure but unfussy, and the small inconsistencies of a brushed surface, a heavier stroke here, a pooled edge there, give it a depth that printed ware never has. The shade is an olive green velvet, edged in Houlès passementerie.
Underneath sits the Makkum shield with model number 495, a combination tied to the workshop's mid-century run somewhere between the 1940s and 70s.
About Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Tichelaar was founded in 1572 at Makkum in Friesland and has worked tin-glazed earthenware ever since, becoming one of the principal keepers of the Delft hand-painting tradition over more than four centuries. Its mid-20th-century pieces pair older Dutch ornament with simpler, more modern shapes, and that period is the one collectors tend to chase, for the quality of the painting and the richness of the colour.