Art nouveau and art deco

Art nouveau and art deco

Three table clocks

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Front: Pottery Factory Rozenburg, The Hague, 1897. Kunstmuseum Den Haag.

Middle: Wed. Brantjes & Co, Purmerend, approx. 1900. Collection Meentwijck.

Back: Pottery Factory Zuid-Holland, Gouda, approx. 1900, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics.

Photo: Erik & Petra Hesmerg

Rozenburg was the first Dutch factory to market decorative pottery in the new art nouveau style. It proved to be a great success and within a few years new factories appeared that started working in the Rozenburg genre. Models were blatantly copied from each other. It is clear that this strikingly shaped table clock by Rozenburg served as an example for the clocks of two competing factories.

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