A beautiful Art Nouveau Gouda pottery ashtray.
Wonderfully colorful floral hand painted design, from Holland.
This well made decorative object can also be used as a key holder/vide poche.
Signed Dalia Konin Klyk, Coedewaalem, Gouda, Holland and numbered on bottom.
Measures: 4 3/4 in. diameter x 2 3/8 in. high
Other interesting information about this form of pottery:
There isn’t a factory called Gouda Pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced ‘how-da’) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland – all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is.
The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Dutch Ashtrays
MaterialsCeramic, Pottery