Featured Is this considered delft/delftware?

Yeah, i bet. Conservation folks have their work cut out for them ANYWHERE! It's hard to keep the past alive over time.

 

Thank you everyone for your input and help on this. It's a piece I picked up a while back because I liked the decoration and form, and curiosity more than anything led me to the internet to find out more about it. That's where I found different pieces with similar decoration being described as Delfts. I've now found a piece for sale on etsy with a sticker on it - from "W Bomas Leersum" - that advertises it as delftware as well. (See the fourth picture in the listing).

https://www.etsy.com/listing/205744158/delftware-candy-dish-with-brass-accents

I certainly am in the camp of everyone here - that this is not delftware- although made somewhere in the Netherlands I think the stickers and marks on these pieces saying "delft" are probably just done as selling points for the foreign market.

Thanks again!

 

Beautiful - and worth the detour I'm sure!

 

LOL, YES! kinda like the detour on this thread!

 

Interesting, they make unusual vases. Can't find them, but there is a pedicurist called Bomas in Leersum, if anyone is interested.
Leersum is in the province of Utrecht, so yet again a case of: Just put Holland on it, no one knows the Netherlands.

 

You're not the only one. Half of me likes it, and the other half finds it mildly repulsive

 

I've seen similar glaze treatments on Belgian and German pieces (and who knows from where else), but that's what it is... a glaze treatment. It is attractive.

 

Somewhere in the back of a closet I have a piece--a bowl, I think--with the same pattern and marking, and I've seen a couple of small pitchers in the same pattern at auctions. So whatever pottery made it, they did other pieces. I don't doubt it being made in Holland, but I wouldn't call if Delft.

 

I like this whole thread.