Vruchtenschaal, beschilderd met bladranken en bloemguirlandes

About this artwork

height 5 cm x width 23 cm x depth 17.5 cm

Art Historical Context

This elegant fruit bowl, created around 1784 by the Manufacture Oud-Loosdrecht, exemplifies the refined porcelain production of late eighteenth-century Netherlands. The factory, active from 1774 to 1784 in the town of Loosdrecht, specialized in high-quality tableware that blended European decorative traditions with the technical mastery of hard-paste porcelain. Its modest dimensions—just five centimeters high and roughly twenty-three centimeters wide—suggest it was intended as a refined serving piece for intimate gatherings rather than grand displays. The bowl’s painted decoration of leafy te...