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<p>[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 50905, member: 50"]Your vase was made by the Dutch company de Porceleyne Fles (Royal Delft). The impressed JT&L is for Joost Thooft & Labouchere, Joost Thoof was an owner and Abel Labouchere was a partner who became owner after the death of Thoof. The impressed mark of JT&L started being used around 1884-1890 and ended before 1916. </p><p><br /></p><p>Usually there is a date code letter mark which would be one or two letters most likely the ones on the right but I can't make them out. The letters on the left seem to be the initial marks of the artist Lambertus ten Dam G.N.who was an artist at Fles from 1890-1918 so that fits.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the date then would fall between 1890 and 1916, the letter code would be a single letter from L-Z or double letters AA-AL. They simply add the next letter of the alphabet so once they reached Z in 1904 they started over with double letters of AA, AB so AL is 1916.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most of this info is from "Discovering Dutch Delftware" by Van Hook.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="say_it_slowly, post: 50905, member: 50"]Your vase was made by the Dutch company de Porceleyne Fles (Royal Delft). The impressed JT&L is for Joost Thooft & Labouchere, Joost Thoof was an owner and Abel Labouchere was a partner who became owner after the death of Thoof. The impressed mark of JT&L started being used around 1884-1890 and ended before 1916. Usually there is a date code letter mark which would be one or two letters most likely the ones on the right but I can't make them out. The letters on the left seem to be the initial marks of the artist Lambertus ten Dam G.N.who was an artist at Fles from 1890-1918 so that fits. If the date then would fall between 1890 and 1916, the letter code would be a single letter from L-Z or double letters AA-AL. They simply add the next letter of the alphabet so once they reached Z in 1904 they started over with double letters of AA, AB so AL is 1916. Most of this info is from "Discovering Dutch Delftware" by Van Hook.[/QUOTE]
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