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Gouda vases with a white or creamy background:

The photo above shows  some matte glazed designs from between 1915 and 1920.

The white/creamy colored vases you sometimes find were manufactured from the early 1900's to about 1920.

At first these were made as high glazed designs, but from around 1915  also matt glazed designs were introduced.

The style used to paint the designs was inspired by the thin eggshell porcelain produced those days by the Rozenburg Factory.

Eggshell porcelain became so thin that you could literally see through the items that were made.

The Pottery produced was of course not as thin, but they tried to produce designs that looked somewhat translucent. They used pastel colors and used hatching (the technique of creating a pattern by drawing lines closely together) to give the illusion of shade and depth to the designs.

The early high glazed designs sometimes had the reference P or NP written on them. (Porcelain or New Porcelain.)

From 1918 the matte designs were finally given decor names. MB was used for "Matte Bloemen" = Matte flowers, and MV was used for "Matte Vogel" = Matte Bird.

This type of design was discontinued around 1920. It was probably too labour intensive to make.

The main characteristic of this type of pottery is that its design appears very thin and translucent. A bit more about high glaze and the  NP decor can be found  HERE.

Similar looking vases were again painted at a much later date, but at that stage they lacked the detail provided in the 1920's. Click  HERE   for an example.

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