(5) Dutch Delft Earthenware Decorative Wall and Wind Up Objects. Most are rounded plates with blue and white decorations, two with battery packs to run the clock mechanism on the front. One displays a scene with a windmill where the blades turn with a mechanism on the back. One is a clog that functions as thermometer. The last piece is a music box shaped like a jukebox. Most marked with their origin. 

Largest Size: 11 x 11 x 1 in. 

Delftware or Delft pottery (also known as Delft Blue or simply as Delft) is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware (a form of faience) that first appeared in the 15th Century, heavily inspired by imported Chinese porcelain. Most of it is blue and white pottery, and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major center of production, but the term also covers wares with other colors made elsewhere. The style was so popular that English delftware also exists, made in London, Liverpool, and Dublin between the 16th and the late 18th Century. Delftware includes pottery objects of all descriptions, such as plates, vases, figurines, and other ornamental forms and tiles, with pieces still made to this day under companies like Royal Delft.

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