Blood is thicker than water, and since we are both of Dutch birth, Maastricht Pottery has a special place in our hearts. In our (web)shop we also offer many, mainly pottery, products from foreign manufacturers, but Maastricht pottery has a prominent place.
Maastricht earthenware is the collective name for earthenware (and porcelain) objects that have been industrially manufactured in Maastricht since around 1835. On the web pages of the Maastricht Earthenware Association (abbreviated VMA) you can find a lot of information about this that we will not repeat here. If Maastricht earthenware interests you, we recommend that you definitely take a look at these pages. You can also find a lot of information about the history of Maastricht Earthenware via Wikipedia .
Among others, the following factories are distinguished under this heading:
NA Bosch (1853-1866)
Factories Petrus Regout (1834-1899)
Société Céramique (1863-1958)
Mosa (1883-1996)
The Sphinx, Sphinx-Céramique and Royal Sphinx (1899-1969)
Jema (1945- 1984)
It is clear that Maastricht pottery is collected by many. Since 1979, the Maastricht Pottery Association has existed, where more than 1000 members can exchange information. The most important museum collection is the Maastricht pottery collection in the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. The CC has the most complete overview of Maastricht pottery, including the so-called factory collection of Royal Sphinx (57,000 pieces) and an extensive collection of Mosa porcelain (11,000 pieces), donated to the museum in 2009 by collector Henk van Buren from Hardinxveld-Giessendam.
The Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht occasionally pays attention to Maastricht pottery, especially with regard to famous designers. Both in the Belvédère information centre (in the former Sphinx showroom) and in the Sphinx Passage on the site of the former Sphinx factories, there are display cases with Regout and Sphinx products. The Discovery Centre Continium in Kerkrade also has a collection of Maastricht pottery, primarily intended to illustrate the early industrial development of Maastricht and Limburg. The Keramiekmuseum Princessehof in Leeuwarden has several Boerenbont objects. The collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam also contain objects of Maastricht pottery, including a children's dinner service by P. Regout, several utensils by NA Bosch, various designs by Edmond Bellefroid and a series of commemorative plates.
Over the years, several exhibitions have been dedicated to Maastricht pottery in Maastricht, including in the Bonnefanten Museum in 1976 and 1980. In 1976, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam paid attention to various pottery producers from Maastricht. In 2017, an exhibition of Maastricht pottery took place on the former island of Deshima in Nagasaki (Japan), which was opened by Princess Laurentien.
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