Beautiful rare Dutch delft blue hand-painted floral scalloped edge shell shape dish. This dish would be perfect as decoration or used as a trinket dish for jewellery or even in a bathroom.

Delfts Blauw (Delft Blue) is the brand name hand painted on the bottom of ceramic pieces identifying them as authentic and collectable. Although most Delft Blue borrows from the tin-glaze tradition, it is nearly all decorated in underglaze blue on a white clay body and very little uses tin glaze, a more expensive product.

The usual clay body of Delftware was a blend of three clays, one local, one from Tournai and one from the Rhineland. The clay is made from around 10 raw materials, which include kaolin, chalk, feldspar and quartz, and is mixed with water until it forms a liquid. The liquid is poured into plaster moulds which consist of several pieces. The plaster absorbs the water from the clay, leaving a dry layer on the inside of the mould.

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