Delft Riser

For four hundred years the Dutch have lined their kitchens and fireplaces with blue and white tiles, each one a small picture of the life outside the window. Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, this tile riser sets a Delft-style tile in a brass frame on little feet, its face divided into four scenes of windmills along the water and a sailing boat on the canal, with blue flowers at every corner. The Delft potteries began making their blue tiles in the 1600s to rival the Chinese porcelain arriving on Dutch trading ships, and windmills, ships, and flat green polders became the scenes they painted most. Sylvie sets a warm teapot on it at the kitchen table, or lifts a small cake up off the counter.

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