15. Het Hooge Huys - The High House / la Maison haute (workshop active from 1650 - 1741), Oosteinde, north-east side, across the water from Porseleyne Fles, close to Molslaan Another house with this name is mentioned 'Names of houses' file at Oosteinde, east side in 1739.
No image of a mark of this workshop is available to this author at the moment.
All masters and apprentices working at this workshop had to be inscribed in the Delft St Luke Guild Book. In 1877 this book was published in a 120 page text by Obreen. In 2002 this text has been scanned and is now available and fully searcheable on this internet site. See the yellow field on top; first click the heading Delft Artists & Patrons and then click Obreen. The full text is in Dutch. Spelling varies; in order to find masters or apprentices of a faience workshop (plattielbackers, plateelbacker, platielbacker) search for the letters "plat".
Collecting
For serious collectors a correct dating of the object is important. On Delft blue plates and other objects such as jugs the potters mark may give a first indication.
A correct dating of Delft blue tiles is much more complicated as there is usually no potters marks. The serious researcher may rely instead on one of the following sources: 1) company archives 2) the date set by actual tiles still found in situ in a building which itself can be dated, 3) the design or image ; the impressive documentation collection of 70.000 photos is in the Nederlands Tegelmuseum in Otterlo (near Arnhem), 4) an actual date rarely found on the tile itself, 5) the size, thickness and other technical characteristics. An excellent source book with thousands of illustrations is the recent book in Dutch and English by Jan Pluis (see below).
Delft potteries which produced Delft blue tiles are these: Rouaan, later known as Het Lage Huys, De Lampetkan, De Vergulde Blompot, De Ham, De Dissel, De Paeuw / Paauw, De Roos, De Grieksche A.
Full
presentation at http://www.xs4all.nl/~kalden
Email the author at kalden@xs4all.nl
All questions about identifying, dating, valuing, buying and selling: please go to www.Aronson.nl.
Notes: Thanks to the Delft Archives Staff for their help and enthusiasm. A well researched two volume book on Delftware is Marion S. van Aken-Fehmers et al, Delfts Aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product, published jointly by Waanders, Zwolle & Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, 1999 (part 1) and 2001 (part 2).
Mark not shown in Trade mark book, and neither in Jean Justice, 'Dictionaire des marques et monogrammes de la faience de Delft', Gand/Gent 1901.
Jan Pluis, De Nederlandse Tegel, decors en benamingen 1570-1930, The Dutch Tile, Designs and Names 1570-1930, Published by: Nederlands Tegelmuseum / Vrienden van het Nederlands Tegelmuseum [Otterlo] / Primavera Pers, Leiden 1997.
How did they make Delft blue faience? Text in English
Hoe maakte men Delfts blauw plateel? Tekst in het Nederlands.
Visit The Hague municipal Gemeentemuseum site on Delft Blue.
Launched January 2002. Last update 25 October 2016.