Rozenburg Pottery and Porcelain Factory | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

The firm was founded in 1883 in the Hague and produced art pottery for both decorative and utilitarian purposes, playing an important role in disseminating the modern Art Nouveau style in the Netherlands. It took on a new ceramic style under the directorship of Th. A.C. Colenbrander and then, from 1894/5, under J. Jurriaan Kok, under whom the firm developed a line of egg shell porcelain, introduced in 1899, and displayed in the Rozenburg pavilion at the 1900 Paris Exposition. This was an extremely thin and lightweight earthenware, strengthened by glazing inside and out. The technique involved biscuit heating of the bare shard at a very high temperature (up to c. 1500 C) [during which the shard received... more.

We have 18 objects that Rozenburg Pottery and Porcelain Factory has been involved with.

A tall white bottle. The central section contains a vase-like shape. On either sides of the top part are two handles, curving from 2/3 of the way toward the top of the bottle and up to meet the hole in the center. The design is floral. Narrow green stems blossom from the base of the of the bottle and curve upward. Yellow pedals appear at various places.

Rozenburg Pottery and Porcelain Factory has collaborated with
Samuel Schellink and
Theodorus Adriaan Christiaan Colenbrander and
Roelof Sterken.

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