A rare very large Petrus Regout Maastricht decor Alpine blue on white bowl

Description

A very rare Petrus Regout Maastricht decor Creta blue on white bowl. Made in Maastricht, Netherlands.
Transferware. Clearly indicated.

In very good condition.
Age: around 1890
Setting: Creta
Diameter: 19.5 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Weight: 662 gr

Maastricht
Maastricht was the first city in the Netherlands to experience the industrial revolution. The Englishman Josiah Wedgwood succeeded in producing ceramics that were whiter and harder than ever before. To achieve this he used a type of clay dug from near the granite cliffs of Cornwall and Devon. Mass production was made possible by the use of plaster molds. In the nineteenth century, factories emerged in Europe that produced cheap ceramics, following the English example. Such factories also opened in Maastricht. The ceramics industry literally and figuratively served as a 'garrison and stronghold' and provided the city with employment for centuries. The ceramic manufacturing process and the art of ceramic decoration flourished here for more than a century.

Peter Regout
Members of the Regout family have been active in Maastricht for centuries as pipe makers and pottery and porcelain traders. At the end of the seventeenth century, Carolus Regout settled in Boschstraat, where the first factory was founded in 1834 by Petrus Regout. This was initially a crystal cutting and polishing studio. Petrus Regout bought a steam engine in 1834 and in the following years opened a nail factory, a ceramics factory, a glass factory, a gun factory and a gas factory. All these initiatives made him the first major industrialist in the Netherlands.

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