Delft Blue is a style of pottery renowned for its white surface painted with cobalt blue, a pigment that withstands very high kiln temperatures without fading.
It gained prominence in the 17th century when Dutch traders imported a large amount of Chinese porcelain. The style blended Dutch imagery with Asian artistic influence.
We visited the Royal Delft pottery factory, the last remaining original pottery factory from the Dutch Golden Age. The artists who detail the pottery train up to ten years before they let looky-loos like us watch them at work.
The layout of the factory museum did its best to wow us with the tile stairs, tile fountains, tile archways.
Plates, commemorative and functional, were on display and after awhile sort of merged into one busy blue design. But then examples of work created by recent artists took over and the Delftware got jazzy.
And the tile work had a sense of humor.
When something as small as egg cup cost more than 100 Euros we certainly weren’t going to add to our cutlery, but the outside courtyard was a nice pleasant place to have a cup of coffee and a pastry.
Very pretty stuff. If an egg cup is 100€ I wonder what that stairway would cost? Maybe Jeff Bezos could buy it for Lauren.
The stairway looked like with just a few drops of water it could become very slick. I could imagine if Jeff had paid help serving him the opportunity to watch him slip would be hard to resist.