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Gouda Art Pottery-Vase (1925-8),Theodorus Verstraaten (1872-1945) - $700
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For sale is a Gouda (Dutch) art pottery designed and decorated by a gifted artist: Theodorus Verstraaten (1872-1945).
Description: Vase
Dimensions: 12.75” high x 7” diameter at its widest
Date: Blank produced in 1925. Decorated ~1928
Pattern #: 1802
Form #: 1804 (incised)
Designer/Decorator: monogram TV (Theodorus Verstraaten (1872-1945))*
Markings: marked in blue on the bottom. Blank’s date and Form # incised.
Plazuid
PZH logo (Gate of Lazarus), designer/decorator monogram, Pattern #
Year symbol incised
GOUDA HOLLAND
Price: US$700.00 OR BEST SERIOUS OFFER
About the Designer/Decorator: Theodorus Verstraaten was born on July 4, 1872 in The Hague as son of a cigarmaker. In 1894 he started at the top quality ceramic factory: Rozenburg. In February 1898 he left Rozenburg as a journeyman in Pottery Design. In November 1899 he moved to Purmerend where he worked at Brantjes till July 1901 when he moved to Gouda and started at PZH. In September that year, he moved back to The Hague and lived again with his parents. He continued working at PZH, commuting with his ex Rozenburg colleagues Dirk Bordewijk, Johannes de Vries and Cees van Muijen. In June 1903 he moved with his future wife to live with her parents in Utrecht and they married in July that year. He is registered as ceramics painter in Utrecht until he moved back with his wife to The Hague in September 1903. He worked the whole period from 1901 to 1908 at PZH. He then worked at Amphora in Oegstgeest. Theo and his wife moved in May 1909 from Oegstgeest to Leiden, together with Theo Leeuwendaal (an old colleague from Rozenburg and PZH) who lived with them till May 1910. They could have easily commuted to the Amphora factory from Leiden. Theo and his wife moved in April 1911 back to The Hague, were he continued to be registered as ceramics painter. In June 1912 they moved to Berlin and returned to Holland in May 1913 working as ceramics painter. In January 1916 they moved to Rotterdam where he registered as tobacconist. In July of that year they moved to The Hague, were he is registered again as a tobacconist. After ten years in The Hague he and his wife moved to Gouda in December 1926, where he is again registered as ceramic painter till 1938. They moved back to The Hague in October 1938. Theo died on 8 March 1945 in Wonseradeel (Friesland) age 73.
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