Antique Art Deco Gouda Pottery Table Lamp with New Ochre Linen Shade, 1920s

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A tall, hand-painted gouda pottery table lamp from the years when dutch art pottery was moving from art nouveau into … Read more A tall, hand-painted gouda pottery table lamp from the years when dutch art pottery was moving from art nouveau into art deco. It has been rewired with a new socket and a fabric-wrapped cord and is set up for use in the u.s. A plug for any other country can be fitted at no charge. The lamp is shown with a new custom shade in ochre linen, and the listed height includes the shade.

the base is a trumpet form in earthenware, painted by hand and finished in a matte glaze. A band of scrolling blue foliage runs around the lower section, with green panels and palmettes reserved in white, a dotted border and a pale blue band at the foot. Above it, sprays of cobalt flowers climb over an ochre ground. The decoration captures two moments in gouda's history. The palmettes and dotted border are art deco in feeling. The loose, upward-growing flowers still recall the dutch art nouveau from which the gouda style developed. The linen shade takes up the ochre of the ground and gives the lamp a warm, even light.

the piece is unmarked. We attribute it to plateelbakkerij zuid-holland (pzh) on the evidence of its shape, since the trumpet profile corresponds closely to one of the factory's candlestick models. The glaze and painting place it between about 1910, when pzh introduced its matte glazes, and the mid-1930s, when the depression pushed the gouda factories away from hand-painted art pottery toward simpler and cheaper wares. The conversion from candlestick to lamp appears to have been made early in the piece's life rather than in recent years.

about gouda pottery:
for centuries the town of gouda was known for clay tobacco pipes and everyday earthenware. That changed in 1898, when plateelbakkerij zuid-holland was founded and began making decorative art pottery. Its early wares were glossy and art nouveau in style. From around 1910 the factory turned to matte, brightly painted decoration, which neighboring firms such as zenith, ivora and regina soon adopted. The look became so closely identified with the town that collectors now call it gouda, whichever workshop produced it. I have official proof of authenticity such as vintage catalogs,
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misattribution,
european plug (up to 250v).the wiring of this item may be original and might need replacement, if not specified otherwise. See less