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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 1476660, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome, blackbird. Sorry for your loss.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is beautiful and yes, genuine Delfts, made in 1883 in the town of Delft, the Netherlands. Nice quality.</p><p>The manufacturer is &#039;De Porceleyne Fles&#039;, the best-known manufacturer of genuine Delfts. The company received the predicate &#039;koninklijke&#039; or royal in 1919 and is now internationally known as Royal Delft.</p><p>I seem to have lost my list of makers, but [USER=50]@say_it_slowly[/USER] can probably tell you who the decorator was.</p><p><br /></p><p>The original painting is by Salomon van Ruysdael, a cousin of the more famous Jacob van Ruisdael. Same surname, different spelling.</p><p>In Dutch the painting is called &#039;De Pleisterplaats&#039;, which means the resting place or inn. Although there is cattle in the foreground, there are an inn and coaches in the background, signs that it is a place to have a meal and a drink and stay the night if needed.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/front-jpg.225518/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/back-jpg.225519/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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