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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 185082, member: 2844&quot;]I don&#039;t think they are antique. These are traditional styles that are still being made.</p><p><br /></p><p>There were several factories called De Delftse P<u>aa</u>uw (not Pauw) from the seventeenth century onward. </p><p>Your plate is marked De Delftse P<u>a</u>uw (not Paauw), this is modern Dutch spelling, which means that this is the factory that was founded in 1954. This style of delftware is still made, mainly for tourists.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Spanish plates are still sold in just about any craft centre or souvenirshop in Spain, Spanish shops elsewhere, and online of course: </p><p><a href="https://www.tienda.com/table/ceramics.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.tienda.com/table/ceramics.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.tienda.com/table/ceramics.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am no specialist, but I think you have to look at very specific properties before you can say your plates are old or antique. In pottery and porcelain, the smallest things are important clues. For instance, the 19th century dish doesn&#039;t have a foot rim, but does have cracks in the glaze, yours has a foot rim and no cracks. Also the white base colour seems to be different. </p><p>The letters on your Spanish plate and the antique one on xupes.com could be Roman numerals, the letters on the antique one certainly look like numerals.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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