Delft pottery is typically the blue and white pottery generally made in the Netherlands around the town of Delft. After the Dutch East India Company began bringing Chineseporcelain in the early 1600s, a market for locally produced imitation pottery began. For unknown reasons this industry was concentrated in the Delft and Rotterdam area. Delftware includes pottery objects of all descriptions such as plates, ornaments, banks, but especially tiles.
Deftware is part of the tinglaze style of pottery, which also includes maiolica, faïence and majolica where tin-based white glazes were applied first, then metal oxide decoration and finally a lead-based clear glaze overcoat to make them glossy. Delftware was originally produced with local colored clay and first painted white then blue decoration added. In 1884 a white clay was introduced and today all clay for Dutch delftware is imported.
Usually produced in blue and white but also in polychrome, Delftware often, but not exclusively, has native Dutch scenes suchs as windmills and fishingboat.
English Delftware was originally called "galleyware" but after the popularity of Dutch products was renamed in the 1700s.
The only remaining original producer of Dutch delftware is "De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles" founded in 1653. The name translates as "Royal Porcelain Jar or Bottle" and their logo is a stylized jar.
Delftblue pottery formed the basis of one of British Airways' ethnic tailfins. This design, Delftblue Daybreak was one of the most widely used, applied to 17 aircraft.
Delft is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland (Zuid-Holland), the Netherlands, located halfway between Rotterdam and The Hague.
It is primarily known for its typical Dutch centre (with canals), Delft Blue pottery (Delftware), the Delft University of Technology and its association with the Royal Family.
The painter Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was born in Delft.
The mark of the pottery named " The Claw " (de Klaauw) is meant to indicate the claw of a bird.
When, in 1720, Z. Dextra assumed control of the pottery, imitations of Dresden decoration were produced, leading to polychrome colours and gilding, in the use of which he was a master.
On the left is a woman moving with her legs the wheel on which she throws or spins a vase, on the right is a man painting a large dish.
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