Brantjes & Co, Purmerende, Holland
Art Nouveau jug, model no. 1025

1897-1904
Painted and glazed earthenware
Underside hand painted 'Faiences de Purmerende Hollande', '1025 Dec B', the Brantjes clog mark and 'NB' (for Nicolaas Brantjes) and other marks
23.7cm high, approx 17.5cm diameter

Preview: Barley Mow Centre

Literature
Purmerends Jugendstil Aardewerk 1895-1907, Purmerends Museum, by F.D. Doornberg et al, (1995), page 73 for the same object

Property of a private collector of Dutch Decorative Arts

The firm Wed. [widow] N.S.A. Brantjes & Co was founded in 1895 in Purmerend (near Amsterdam), when the company applied for a licence to turn what had previously been a brick factory into a decorative pottery factory. Egbert Estie, the artistic director, brought in designers and painters (as he later did with the South Holland or Zuid-Holland factory at Gouda in 1897). The factory only existed for a nine years but produced a diverse range of pottery.