Delft Pottery, Rise and Fall
Description
Delftware has made a name for itself throughout the Western world. It has gained great fame, it has managed to play a role for several centuries in the expressions and presentation of national culture surrounded by a haze of delicate and precious objects, representative, valued as gifts, as possessions, overvalued by top art dealers and frenetic collectors. It will certainly remain so for a long time to come.
More than 50 workshops and factories across the country and also in Delft have made this product in millions of pieces, but those days are over - it no longer fits into contemporary interiors, the price/quality ratio is no longer right. It is over.
Time for an afterthought.
How did it come about, where did it come from, how did it develop, how was it threatened, what is left of it? Intriguing questions that the speaker, because of his close connection to the industry, will try to answer without too much bias.
For 25 years he was director of the last remaining factory of delft earthenware, Koninklijke Tichelaar in Makkum
10.30:00 Reception with coffee
11:00 Lecture by dr.ir. P.J. Tichelaar
11.45 Pause
12.15 Continuation of lecture with concluding discussion
12.45 End of meeting
ROUTE DESCRIPTION
From motorway A13 Rotterdam or The Hague, exit Delft Zuid/TU Delft. Follow TU Delft. At the end of the exit TU Delft turn right onto Schoemakerstraat. Then take the first turn left and immediately left again across the bridge. You are now in the car park of the burnt down Faculty of Architecture (Van den Broekweg). The Cultural Centre is at the end of this road, across Mekelweg. Due to work on the newly constructed ' Mekelpark', the Mekelweg is closed. Public transport via NS Delft-Zuid (see also link below).
Speaker(s)
Pieter Jan Tichelaar, (Makkum 1928) left Delft in 1958 as a chemical technologist to go to Makkum to help and succeed his father in running the family business, the local pottery factory, which had been around for several centuries. After twenty-five years, he left the company. In 2000, he ended his work as interim manager and then deepened his hobby by writing several books on the history of the technique and products of the ten Frisian clay bakeries. In 2004, he obtained his doctorate from the Faculty of Literature of Radboud University in Nijmegen.
LITERATURE by this author (selection, Google: Pieter Jan Tichelaar):
- (with C. Polder) Gebakken Schilderijen, Leiden 1998
- (with S. ten Hoeve) Fries Aardewerk II "Bolsward", Leiden 2001
- Fries Aardewerk III "Tichelaar 1700 -1868, Leiden 2004
- A study in parts, Leiden 2004
Location
Cultural Centre, Theatre Hall 232
Mekelweg 10, 2628 CD DELFT
Organiser
History of Technology
Histechnica
Name and contact details for information
Further information from L.A. Hissink at the e-mail address below.