Three Japanese Arita blue and white ‘Van Frytom’ cups and four shield-shaped saucers, Ming and Chenghua mark, ca. 1700

Dim.: 11,5 x 12,5 cm (the saucers)
Dia.: 7,4 cm - H.: 3,9 cm (the cups)

Frederik van Frytom (1632–1702)
Frederik van Frytom was a leading painter of Delft pottery. His work aligns closely with the 17th-C. Dutch landscape tradition, characterised by rural scenes with small bridges, pollarded willows and cattle in open fields. His ceramic painting technique is notably pictorial, going beyond the conventional practice of merely filling outlined designs.

Van Frytom’s involvement with Oriental export wares is evidenced by a group of small blue and white dishes made for the Japanese tea ceremony, marked MB and dated 1684. Comparable examples and biographical details are discussed in A. Vecht, Frederik Van Frytom 1632–1702: Life and Work of a Dutch Pottery-Decorator, Amsterdam 1968.