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Plant pot with bamboo design Theme: Black and white decor Hi resolution image available Mint condition with only some limescale inside. Common. Value: £ 3-7 |
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Lidded beakers (1964) Theme: Miscellaneous With flower power designs of young people framed by hearts. These have wooden lids (rubber seals missing). Mint condition with no damage or crazing. Value: £ 3 (each) |
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Sphinx ashtray (stamp for 1955) Theme: Miscellaneous From a range of ashtrays and other advertising wares in many pastel and other colour shades. Original fifties versions are hard to find in pristine condition like this one; the lower edge at the corners is often chipped. More recent versions are very commonly seen in Dutch flea markets. Value: £ 10-35 |
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Freeform dish Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 125, pattern A. See enlargement. Mint condition. Value: £ 20-40 |
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Freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 101, pattern ES. With black decoration on a pastel green ground. Mint condition. The body shape is rather like a marrow bone. Value: £ 40-60 |
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Freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 123, pattern A. with honey- or mustard-coloured body and black stripes. Beaked lip, painted black inside. Pristine condition with no damage or crazing. Value: £ 60-90 |
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Green Freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 127, pattern AE. With black linear patterns on a beautiful, gently curving body. Absolutely pristine condition with no damage or crazing. Value: £ 60-90 |
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Pierced freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 152, pattern AE. Pierced centrally, and with two lateral openings, lined inside with a band of black below the openings. This vase is featured on the cover of the book Made in Holland (see Books). In pristine undamaged condition with no crazing. Some limescale staining inside. Value: £ 80-120 |
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Small freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 124, pattern A. Mint condition. Value: £ 30-40 |
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Small freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 124, pattern E. Half-painted in black on a yellow pastel ground. Mint condition. Value: £ 30-40 |
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White Freeform vase Theme: Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht Body shape 110, pattern A. Black stripes on a white ground, with black interior.Perfect undamaged condition with no crazing. Value: £ 60-90 |
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Background information
Called Société Céramique (Maastricht, 1863-1958); merging with De Sphinx (originally owned by P. D. Regout) in 1958 to produce Sphinx-Céramique, from 1960 onwards called Koninklijke Sphinx. Produced tableware, tiles and bathroom ware. For more information, see the collectors site or this private Regout website. For a biography of Petrus Dominicus Regout, see http://www.parlement.com/9291000/biof/01098
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Miscellaneous Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht
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Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht
Wim Visser produced in earthenware a range of superb freeform, sgraffito and slip-trailed designs for Maastricht from 1954-1956. According to the book Made in Holland (p. 59; see Books), these handpainted pieces were produced in small batches but were not a commercial success. This episode reminds me of the failure of Colin Melbourne's ultra modern designs for Beswick (1956), which were too far ahead of their time to catch on. In my opinion, Visser's pieces for Maastricht are among the finest of all European ceramics from the fifties. Surprisingly, they are little collected at this time and are almost unknown outside The Netherlands. A promotional leaflet produced for this range at the time is entitled: Kunst Keramiek N.V. "de Sphinx" Maastricht - Holland. It depicts the full range in photographs. Included are beakers with spots or lines, a very large vase with elaborate abstract decoration, and bowls and vases with animals, plants and figures. The handpainted numbers and letters on the underside refer to the body and decoration codes, not the decorator. Thus 152/Z/AE is body shape 152, decoration (pattern) AE. I don't know what the middle letter stands for. Please email me if you know.
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Miscellaneous Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht
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Miscellaneous
Wim Visser Art Pottery (Kunst Keramiek) for Maastricht
Wim Visser produced in earthenware a range of superb freeform, sgraffito and slip-trailed designs for Maastricht from 1954-1956. According to the book Made in Holland (p. 59; see Books), these handpainted pieces were produced in small batches but were not a commercial success. This episode reminds me of the failure of Colin Melbourne's ultra modern designs for Beswick (1956), which were too far ahead of their time to catch on. In my opinion, Visser's pieces for Maastricht are among the finest of all European ceramics from the fifties. Surprisingly, they are little collected at this time and are almost unknown outside The Netherlands. A promotional leaflet produced for this range at the time is entitled: Kunst Keramiek N.V. "de Sphinx" Maastricht - Holland. It depicts the full range in photographs. Included are beakers with spots or lines, a very large vase with elaborate abstract decoration, and bowls and vases with animals, plants and figures. The handpainted numbers and letters on the underside refer to the body and decoration codes, not the decorator. Thus 152/Z/AE is body shape 152, decoration (pattern) AE. I don't know what the middle letter stands for. Please email me if you know.
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