Gouda Regina Collection

This is my first Regina item that I bought when visited an antic fair in Waterloo a month ago. This colorful candlestick are made by the Regina factory, one of the oldest Dutch pottery factory which was founded in 1898. The Regina name itself derived from Queen Wilhemina who was crowned in the same year. On the base of Regina pottery you will see the name of Regina, model number 298, the initial WB with a crown, the pattern name on the right "imbra", Gouda Holland and decorator mark. Then how do you know how old is it?


To make an estimation when this candlestick was produced by Regina factory, we can start from the crown logo on the base of pottery. According to Joop Nobel, one of the world's leading experts on Regina pottery, there are three types of crown:

- The first is the stencilled crown, it is not painted, thick and black filled.It is the oldest mark.
- The second is the so called "Gravenkroon" which is the type of crown an Earl would wear.
- The last type, after 1935, is the Keizerskroon" or Emperors crown. This mark had a cross on
top of it and was used until the factory closed in 1979.

Based on this three categories, since there is no a cross on top of the crown, we could guess that the crown on the base of candlestick could belong to the first and second type of crown. In this connection, we could estimate that this candlestick was produced before 1935.

Reffering to the pattern name, it seem that "imbra" is not a popular pattern name compared to Angola, Arina, Cordoba, Delos, Fleveo, Florida, Gambir, Molda, Myria, Olga, Presto, Robur, Ruimte, Sevilla, Tibon, Torino, Valencia. Then, I am really appreciated if you could add some information related to Gouda Regina pottery, particularly on the date of production as well as the pattern name "imbra".

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Gouda Pottery

This weekend I have been invited by my colleague to see a monthly antic goods market in Mechelen, 25 km from Brussels. Actually it is not really an antic exhibition; it is a well organized indoor flea market (Brocante in French). My colleague persuades me that in this market we can find some antic goods. We can bargain and if we are lucky enough, we can get it in low price.

One of my colleague’s favorite, among so many things sold by traders in that market, is Gouda pottery. It is a style of Dutch pottery named after the city of Gouda, a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Gouda pottery is diverse and visually distinctive in appearance, typically illustrated with colourful and highly decorated Art Nouveau or Art Deco designs. Gouda pottery gained worldwide prominence in the late 19th and early 20th century and remains highly desirable to collectors today.

At that time, there were many factories spread over the Netherlands producing the "Gouda style" of pottery. Factories such as PZH (Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland) Regina, Schoonhoven, Ivora, Goedewaagen and Zenith, were well known. They all had their own styles, patterns, decorators and designers. After the World War II, some factories stop their productions and some still continue with their new products. But according to the collectors, the new Gouda potteries are not so good; sadly quality and design began to suffer.

In this regard I could understand why the old Gouda pottery, in its original design, hunted by many collectors around the world for collection or resells. In Indonesia itself, collectors are looking Gouda pottery not only because it’s fabulous beauty but also by it’s high historical value. During the Dutch colonialism era, Dutch government officials and traders brought this pottery to Indonesia, as a gift or present to the local authorities.

After almost one hour hunting “antic goods”, finally I found a trader who sells Gouda Pottery. The trader, an old lady who can speak Germany, Netherlands, French and English, showed me a Gouda pottery plate decorated with flowers and leaves. This plate made in Gouda by Gobana Koninklyk Gouda Holland on model number 5110/35. There is a symbol in this plate to show the date mark (see photo below). The trader mentioned that it is a typical Gouda pottery made in 1940s.

Other Gouda pottery plate is a two handled hand painted Gouda dish by Bianca. The dish is in good condition with only tiny defect at the back side. The model number is 3231p with the same decoration and symbol as the Gouda pottery plate above (see two photos below).

Looking to this two plate, we can notice that they have same decoration, made by two different factories, but it made in the same periode, most probably in the 1940s as mentioned by the trader.

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