Table Lamp from Rare Antique Royal Delft Polychrome—Margaretha

Margaretha, a popular Dutch name of the era (also Mata Hari’s birth name, did you know she was Dutch?), is a one-of-a-kind lamp lovingly handcrafted from an antique (1913), very rare, early Royal Delfts (De Porceleyne Fles) Polychrome vase hand-painted by Theodorus Antonius Bernardus van Lingen, master painter, and paired with a custom contemporary tandoori red satin lampshade and cord. This exquisite vase was one of the first of its kind to be painted with the multi-coloured Delfts Polychrome technique, the successor of Italian Majolica produced in the 16th and 17th centuries. Made in 1913, this vase pre-dates the earliest regular production pieces of underglaze Polychrome made by De Porceleyne Fles from 1917 to 1925, and even those pieces are quite scarce. With its deep blues, burnt oranges, and fresh greens on a light cream background, this uniquely shaped double gourd vase is expertly hand-painted on the front of the spherical body with a long-tailed parrot perched on a peony bran