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Schoonhoven
Decor: Prinses Year: Around 1922. High:
28cm. Wide: 18cm Painted by: T
= Anthonie (Toon) van den Berg.
Schoonhoven-Decor Prinses.
This vase was made by the Schoonhoven pottery and as the name suggests, in
the town of Schoonhoven. They started production in 1920, but compared to
the PZH, on a much smaller scale, so examples of their work from that period
are therefore harder to find. On the other hand the business still exists,
so new ceramics from them can still be bought.
As I mentioned elsewhere, many potteries that produced Gouda copied each
other’s ideas and designs at the time, but I have to say that the
Schoonhoven pottery did a good job in being a little different than the
others because of the colours and designs they chose to use. Other Gouda
potteries produced bird vases as well, but the design, and the shades of
green and blue colours used by the Schoonhoven pottery are distinctly
different from those used by the competition.
Another vase made by the same painter can be found
HERE
.
I showed the front as well as the back of the vase, the back has quite an
artistic design for the time in which the vase was produced.
The single letter “T” identifies the painter who worked there from around
1922.
