Two vases made of white opaque faience from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums are decorated with underglaze cobalt painting and are attributed to the masters of Delft, one of the largest European centres of ceramics production. The objects serve as a vivid example of the period of formation and blossoming of Dutch ceramics in the 17th-18th cc., when Delft’s craftsmen by reproducing Chinese originals worked out their own artistic style. At first, the ceramics of Delft copied the classic forms of Chinese porcelain, stylized scenes of life of the Chinese, fanСЃy landscapes, and floral motifs – features of the chinoiserie style. At the same time, the Dutch began to appeal to their national motifs – landscapes with mills and fishermen's boats – and reproduce the paintings of Dutch masters. The white Dutch semi-faience (opaque) with underglaze cobalt painting was in the 17th-18th cc one of the most important export pieces of this little country.