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Delftware tiles with Sea Beggars - Historisch Museum Den Briel (Brielle/NL)

Delftware tiles with Sea Beggars. they were at the start of the Dutch Uprising at Sea acting as pirates or freebooters and also made the coastal villages unsafe.

 

Delftware or Delft pottery, also known as Delft Blue[1] (Dutch: Delfts blauw), is a general term now used for Dutch tin-glazed earthenware, a form of faience. Most of it is blue and white pottery, and the city of Delft in the Netherlands was the major centre of production.

 

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Historisch Museum Den Briel - a Dutch museum located inside Brielle's former weigh house and local prison, built in 1623 in the historical city of Brielle. Previously known as the "Trompmuseum", after Brielle-born Maarten Tromp who defeated the Spanish fleet in the Eighty Years' War.

 

Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historisch_Museum_Den_Briel

 

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