Maastricht Pottery

Blood is thicker than water, and since we are both of Dutch birth, Maastricht pottery has a special place in our hearts. In our (web)store we also offer many, mainly pottery, products from foreign manufacturers but Maastricht pottery has a prominent place.

Maastricht pottery is the collective term for pottery (and porcelain) objects that were industrially manufactured in Maastricht from about 1835 onwards. On the web pages of the Maastricht Pottery Association (abbreviated VMA) you can find a lot of information about this that we are not going to repeat here. If Maastricht pottery interests you, we recommend that you take a look at these pages. Also via Wikipedia you can find a lot of information regarding the history of Maastricht Pottery.

Among others, the following factories are distinguished under this heading:
N.A. Bosch (1853-1866)
Fabrieken Petrus Regout (1834-1899)
Société Céramique (1863-1958)
Mosa (1883-1996)
De Sphinx, Sphinx-Céramique en Koninklijke Sphinx (1899-1969)
Jema (1945- 1984)

Obviously, Maastricht pottery is collected by many. Since 1979, the Maastricht Pottery Association, where the more than 1,000 members can exchange information. The most important museum collection is the Maastricht pottery collection at the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. The CC holds the most complete overview of Maastricht pottery, including the so-called factory collection of Royal Sphinx (57,000 pieces) and an extensive collection of Mosa porcelain (11,000 pieces), donated to the museum in 2009 by collector Henk van Buren from Hardinxveld-Giessendam.

The Bonnefanten museum in Maastricht pays occasional attention to Maastricht pottery, especially with regard to well-known designers. Both in the Belvédère Information Center (in the former Sphinx showroom) and in the Sphinx Passage on the grounds of the former Sphinx factories, display cases with Regout and Sphinx products have been set up. The Discovery Center Continium in Kerkrade also has a collection of Maastricht pottery, primarily intended to illustrate the early industrial development of Maastricht and Limburg. The Princessehof Ceramics Museum in Leeuwarden owns several Boerenbont objects. Also in the collections of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam are objects of Maastricht pottery, including a children's service by P. Regout, some utensils by N.A. Bosch, several designs by Edmond Bellefroid and a series of commemorative plates.

Several exhibitions have been devoted to Maastricht pottery in Maastricht over the years, including at the Bonnefantenmuseum in 1976 and 1980. In 1976, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam paid attention to several Maastricht pottery producers. In 2017, an exhibition of Maastricht pottery took place on the former island of Deshima in Nagasaki, Japan, and was opened by Princess Laurentien.

For further questions and/or comments you can always contact us and we will try to answer as best we can.