Delphware plates (Pair of) blue & white, Ships,hand-painted for Schat Davits Ltd

11 inch/27cm delftware, hand painted, decorative ship plates.

Each has written descriptions (on back of plate) of ships painted.

Plates have holes in the rear - ready to hang. Both were gifts to the family from Schat Davits Ltd some 50 years ago.

No longer on display but collecting dust in a cupboard we’ve decided it’s time to offer someone else the chance to enjoy them. Both plates show some signs of fine crazing to the surface over the artwork, although nothing to the back of the plates.

The details:

Plate 1:

“Grosvenor 1770 - the plate depicts the “Grosvenor” (741 tons) flying the ensign of her owners, the East India Company. She was launched at Deptford in 1770, and wrecked in 1782. The picture is from a model by Donald Mcnarry.”

Plate 2:

‘A Dutch Flagship’ - the plate depicts a Dutch flagship of about 50 guns, which has not been identified. She is shown coming to anchor. It is taken from a fine painting by Van de Velde the Younger, painted about 1665, now in the national maritime museum, Greenwich.

Thanks for looking, hope their history and the plates prove of interest.