This is a complete garniture set. Garniture sets were usually comprised of three covered vases and two beaker vases. The history of garnitures is closely linked to the overall development of ceramics as a central element within the decoration of interiors. Although some models were timeless, their design and decoration often followed the latest fashion. The beginning of their production corresponds to a general interest for Chinese motifs and designs. Over the following years, the Delft masters rivaled each other in inventiveness. By the eighteenth century, the arrival of the rococo movement encouraged the creation of a wide range of garnitures, and overtime decorations became more European or even Dutch, with landscape scenes as can be seen on the present garniture. However, the finials shaped as a bird picking
a cherry were Asian in design. Concurrent with the Rococo style, interior designers transformed cabinet cornices from straight into serpentine. It was only logical that from about 1730-40, the next progression in this development would be the integration of wooden consoles into the cabinet cornices, the perfect stage for the presentation of garnitures.
This brightly coloured set, marked for The Three Bells factory, was produced in Delft around 1820.
