Dutch Delftware
Queen Mary's Splendor
Description:... Robert Aronson says, Queen Mary II has long been viewed as a 'Patron Saint of Dutch Delftware.' Without surviving children, she devoted much of her time to gardening and a passion for Blue and White porcelain and its counterparts in Dutch Delft. Magnificent examples of Delft not only filled her Paleis Het Loo residence in Apeldoorn but also Kensington Palace in London and Hampton Court Palace on the Thames. She ordered many large urns, vases and flower pyramids from The Greek A Factory, or De Grieksche A Factory, during the ownership of both Samuel van Eeenhoorn and Adrianus Kocx, the leading makers of Delft, thereby establishing a fashion for such vessels among tastemakers of the time in the Netherlands, England and France. Aronson also announced the publication of a 144 page catalogue with more than seventy rare 17th and 18th century Dutch Delftware items acquired from both private and specialist sources especially for connoisseurs of Delft.--Publisher.
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