A DUTCH DELFT POLYCHROME CARTOUCHE-SHAPED PLAQUE, CIRCA 1740 |

painted with a bouquet of flowers in a vase, flanked by a pair of flower baskets supported by grotesque masks, joined by a scroll-edged diaper-filled pedestal, the blue-edged moulded frame painted with flowering scrolls affixed with four shells, pierced twice for hanging,

In good appearance. Some glaze loss to extremities, The edge of the rim on the reverse with a few small chips. Some flat glaze chips to the moulded frame on the front with some colour filling. The painted scene with some faint glaze crazing cracks.
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A second plaque of this design is published by Henry-Pierre Fourest, Delftware, Faience production at Delft, London, 1980, p. 172, no. 171.