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Justus Brouwer

No. 6, Een Zee Schuijt op de Nering (A ship over fishing grounds)

Maker

Justus Brouwer (Dutch)
manufacturer The Porcelain Axe (De Porceleyne Bijl) Factory (Dutch)

Title

No. 6, Een Zee Schuijt op de Nering (A ship over fishing grounds)

Year

1764-1775

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

earthenware, tin glaze

Geography

Place Made: Delft

Dimensions

Diameter: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscription below:No. 6. Een Zee Schuijt op de Hering

Marks: Factory mark:axe painted in underglaze blue.

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Bequest of Mrs. Hope Brown Russell

Object Number

09.423

Type

Exhibition History

Past Made Present
Dutch Shadows in the Black Atlantic
Sep 03, 2022 – Aug 06, 2023

Label copy

This delftware plate, one from a set of twelve, is made of tin-glazed earthenware decorated with cobalt blue. It depicts a typical Dutch fishing ship, or haringbuis, which caught and processed fish at sea. Grain, fish, and ceramics formed the economic backbone of the northern Netherlands in the 1600s. Developed to copy Chinese porcelain, Delft’s earthenware industry declined in the late 1700s, when the herring market also collapsed.

Mrs. Alexis B. Hafken Farago Bridge Gallery
Jan 02, 2014
Visions of the East
Jun 10, 1983 – Aug 20, 1983

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Public Domain This object is in the Public Domain and available under a CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

Tombstone

Justus Brouwer (Dutch)
manufacturer The Porcelain Axe (De Porceleyne Bijl) Factory (Dutch)
No. 6, Een Zee Schuijt op de Nering (A ship over fishing grounds), 1764-1775
Earthenware with tin glaze and enamel
Diameter: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 inches)
Bequest of Mrs. Hope Brown Russell 09.423

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