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    Posted 9 years ago

    ho2cultcha
    (5040 items)

    i found this old ashtray the other day and haven't figured out how to clean off the decades of tar from the inside yet. it's unusually made as a two-piece. there's no signature of any kind on it. the inside of the cone on the botom is also glazed, which i thought interesting. anyone recognize it? where it's from or anything?

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    1. vetraio50 vetraio50, 9 years ago
      I think it might be Dutch : a piece of Northern Dutch Pottery from Frisia.
      The Dutch term for it is "kerfsnee-aardewerk"
      kerf - notch
      snee - cut
      aarde - earth, clay
      werk - work
      Might be a later piece: "Aardewerk fabriek Velsen te Sassenheim" during the period 1945-1950. But if it is an earlier piece it will be from a little further north in Sneek.
      The deep cutting style has mediaeval origins but was popular in Holland from 1892 onwards until the late twenties. It was revived during the second world war and became popular again after the war. Little of the work is signed although there are known pieces which bore initials
    2. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 9 years ago
      thank you vetraio50! you are a wealth of knowledge!
    3. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 9 years ago
      it's similar, but not quite. the dutch pieces appear to all have a white ceramic base, whereas this is a very hard, deep red terracotta. the colored drawings on top of the blue base are kind of unique as well. i think that this is influenced by the dutch potters, but from somewhere else.
    4. getthatmonkeyoutofme getthatmonkeyoutofme, 9 years ago
      I think it might be from marocco, i remember at least ashtrays with the same shape offered there
    5. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 9 years ago
      thank you getthatmonkey! i think you got it!

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