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Dutch earthenware is represented in the collections of the world's great museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which has one of the finest holdings of Delft blue-and-white and polychrome ceramics in the United States. A selection of thirty-five of the most distinguished pieces from this remarkably comprehensive yet previously unpublished collection are presented here for the first time. This fully illustrated volume reveals the importance of Delft faience production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, while highlighting the exceptional quality of the Museum's collection.