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GOUDA ZUID HOLLAND BREETVELT GOUDA VASE

NV (Koninklijke) Plateelbakkerij Zuid Holland.

 

Vase decorated by Henri L.A. Breetvelt during the period

1916-1923

 

Height 21.5cm

 

Breetvelt, H.L.A.

Henri Breetvelt, born 5 Nov. 1864 in Delft died 28 Aug. 1923 in Gouda

 

Henri Breetvelt had his own workshop in 1909 till 1916 in Den Haag. Made design-drawings for pottery decorations. Worked at different ceramics factories, like Zuid Holland, Porceleinfabriek de Kroon and Société Céramique. Mark/back stamp see picture.

 

From 1916 till 1923, Breetvelt worked at pottery factory/Plateelbakkerij Zuid Holland as independent decorations-designer, invented the pre-burn. Designed mat glaze art pottery vases and wall plates with abstract colourfull decoration in his own workshop inside the factory. Painted almost every piece himself, thousands of unica/unique single pieces, but also in series. "Decor Breetvelt” is mentioned at the bottom when other colleagues painted his designs. Even after his death, his designs live on.

 

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