Decorated after one for the numerous engravings of this popular Ovidian subject, within a border of alternating scallops and flowerheads.

Charger with the Rape of Europa after Hendrik Goltzius
Attributed De Grieksche A factory 1715-1722
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (BK-NM-12400-286)

This hand using the same palette is also found on some of the most ambitious Delft petit feu decorated wares such as a charger in the Rijksmuseum painted with Europa and the Bull which is attributed De Grieksche A factory. The painting is of exceptionally high quality and has been attributed to Adriaan van Rijsselbergh, the most important painter at the factory.

Condition:
Broken in half and restuck

Provenance:
Soame Jenyns Collection
Sotheby’s, London, 8 November 2018, lot 33 (part)
Anthony du Boulay Collection

Literature:

Manners 2024
E & H Manners, ‘Decorators of Ceramics and Glass, 2024, no. 49 

Price: £3,500.00