Blue and White ‘Calendar’ Plate from series of the Months, depicting a pastoral " Janúwarij " scene with ice skaters on a frozen canal (lake or river) and two gentleman in a tent having a animated conversation with a glass of wine, 'WVDB' Monogram Mark in blue for Widow van den Briel-Elling, owner of the factory 't Fortuyn, Delft, The Netherlands 1759-1771, plate made in the factory 't Fortuyn ca. 1765, diam. 25,5cm – h. 3,0cm.
Restored: Old Restorations removed but leaving some of the rim flaking with respect of its historical age.
Note:
- At Delft in 1764, Elisabeth Elling-van den Briel, widow of Pieter van den Briel († 1759) registered a mark, composed of the letters WVDB (Ref. 1, Ref. 2).
- A similar “October” ‘Calendar’ Plate with WVDB mark is in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum under Accession number 3852-1901 (Ref. 3) and on display at V&A South Kensington.
Ref. 1:: https://www.aronson.com/object/d2455-blue-and-white-oval-shaped-plaque/
Ref. 2: https://www.alaintruong.com/2025/12/blue-and-white-oval-shaped-plaque-d…
Ref. 3: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O160397/october-plate-van-den-briel/
- For “all” the Delft January plates: Is the pictured ‘Janúwarij scene’ possibly after-, or an interpretation of, Cornelis Pronk’s (Amsterdam, 1691 - Amsterdam, 1759), pen, pencil and watercolor painting from 1748, “Ice fun on an frozen canal” (Ref. 4), bearing in mind that winterscenes on ice, whitch some include the famous “koek-en-zopietent”, were very popular amongst Dutch painters in the 17th and 18th century, see for example Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619 – Haarlem 1668) (Ref. 5) and Jan van Goyen (Leiden 1596 – The Hague1656) (Ref. 6)?
- If the assumption above proves to be correct then other Caledar plates might represent other paintings and/or engravings from artists from the Low Countries?
- With the assumptions above, is the Copper engraving depicting people gathering firewood in winter by Jean Moyreau (Orleans 1690-1762 Paris) after a (lost?) painting by Philips Wouwerman (Haarlem 1619 – Haarlem 1668), Paris 1739, titled "L'Hyver", (Ref. 7) a possible candidate for the “Dezember plate”?
- Do 18th century Delft Polychrome calendar plates exist? If so, source please?
Ref. 4: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/IJsvermaak-op-een-bevro…
Ref. 5: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philips_Wouwerman_-_Winterlands…
Ref. 6: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Goyen_-_Winter_-_WGA102…
Ref. 7: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichier:L_Hyver.jpg
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