Delft Ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Hardcover and softcover
92 pages, 9 ½ x 9 ½ in.
36 color + 17 b/w illus.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2003
Hardcover ISBN 9780876331682
Softcover ISBN 9780876331705

Dutch earthenware is represented in the collections of the world’s great museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has one of the finest holdings of Delft blue-and-white and polychrome ceramics in the United States. This fully illustrated volume reveals the importance of Delft faience production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while highlighting the exceptional quality of the museum’s collection. Ella B. Schaap has written entries that describe the significant features of each object and set them in historical context. She has also provided an essay discussing the development of the museum’s collection of Delft ceramics. Noted scholar Hans van Lemmen has contributed a lively, illustrated essay outlining the history of Delft ceramic production. A glossary of technical terms and a list of sources for further reading complete the book.

Ella B. Schaap is a curatorial associate for Dutch ceramics at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Hans van Lemmen is a freelance tile historian, author, and lecturer specializing in the history of medieval tiles, Coade stone, Dutch and English Delftware tiles, Victorian tiles and Art Nouveau and Art Deco tiles.