East Meets West

The presentation of the permanent collection

In the exhibition East Meets West you travel around the world and through time with ceramics as your guide. Every place and time has its own ceramics, which reflect political, economic and cultural circumstances. Moreover, knowledge and taste travel from East to West, and vice versa. Along the way you will discover unexpected similarities in styles, shapes and techniques from all over the world. From China, the cradle of ceramics, to the Frisian clay.

In East Meets West you will find the finest pieces the Princessehof has to offer

Permanent collection

The museum’s permanent collection is displayed in East Meets West, including an important collection of Chinese porcelain, Delft Blue and Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco ceramics.

Ming vase

The ‘Mona Lisa’ of the Princessehof

Ru bowl

The sky after a rainstorm

Baboon

Art depicting animal behavior

Carp

Le Japon Artistique

Eggshell porcelain

Asymmetric compositions on delicate porcelain

Porcelain biscuit

Vases of unglazed white porcelain

The renovation of the Princessehof National Museum of Ceramics was made possible in part with the financial support of de BankGiro Loterij, Ir. Abe Bonnema Stichting, Wassenbergh-Clarijs-Fontein Stichting, Stichting Dioraphte, VSBfonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, Stichting Van Achterbergh-Domhof, Het Nieuwe Stads Weeshuis, Stichting Woudsend Anno 1816, St. Anthony Gasthuis, Meindersma-Sybenga Stichting, Stichting Dorodarte, Leeuwarder ondernemersfonds, GGB Bolhuis Fonds, P.W. Janssen’s Friesche Stichting, Stichting Herbert Duintjer Fonds, Boelstra-Olivier Stichting and KLM.