The Rozenburg den Haag, with stork mark and other factory marks:

The Rozenburg Royal Delftware Factory (1883-1917) produced internationally renowned pottery. German Wilhelm Wolff Freiherr von Gudenberg founded the factory to produce traditional Delft pottery.  Wilhelm was drawn to contemporary artistic designs and partnered with  T.A.C. Colenbrander (1841-1930), who designed exotic vases and dishes with whimsical, bright designs.

In the 1890s, Rozenburg produced tile tableaux for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and was very much inspired by the British arts and crafts style. Vases, mantel clocks, dishes and jugs were decorated with rural idylls populated by waterfowl and frogs, sunflowers and poppies. The scenes were devised by master painters and their apprentices.

Director Jurriaan Kok (1861-1919) launched an eggshell porcelain that was so delicate that it was almost unusable. Cheerful, robust decorations made way for ethereal, stylised scenes with aviary birds and thistle branches. At the World Exhibition in Paris (1900) Kok’s pottery was a hit and the factory enjoyed some very profitable years.

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