A Dutch Delftware blue and white dish with soldiers at camp, Makkum, dated 1764

A Dutch Delftware blue and white dish with soldiers at camp, Makkum, dated 1764 Dia.: 26,3 cmÊ Attributed to the painter Gatse Sytses (ca. 1724-1798) Decorated after an engraving by Frederick Bloemaert (1614/17-1669) which was part of the series Labors of the months.Dated 1764 and inscribed Junius, indicating it may have been part of a months' series of plates.Ê Ref.: - Depicted in Fries Aardewerk, Collection Minze van den Akker, 2007, page 224, nr. 0241262. - Aronson, Dutch Delftware, 2010, p. 114, nr. 64, for a set of 3 similar plates, dated 1757. - Another set of 3, of later date, is in the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, on loan from the Ottema-Kingma foundation.