Left: Vase in the shape of a flower with decoration of beetles and arrowhead, 1896 – 1905, Faience and Tile Factory Holland, Utrecht, painter Hermanus Oostveen, earthenware, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics (on loan from Ottema-Kingma Stichting).
Right: Vase with two ears and decoration of daffodils, 1896 – 1905, Faience and Tile Factory Holland, Utrecht, earthenware, Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics.
Up until the 1920s, flowers were the most popular decorative motif. Dozens of pottery factories brought colorful decorative pottery with floral motifs onto the market. The decorations were hand-painted; with smooth strokes or very precisely. Poppies, lilies, violets, irises and chrysanthemums are the most common. There are also flowers that are entirely the product of fantasy.