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An earthenware plate
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A rare De Distel earthenware wall plate designed by Bert Nienhuis, circa 1901. Decorated with two carps between sea weed against a sprayed blue-green background, diameter 35 cm.
Lambertus (Bert) Nienhuis (1873-1960) trained at the Minerva Academy in his hometown Groningen and at the school of Applied Arts in Amsterdam, where he joined the newly founded earthenware factory Distel in 1895. A year later, Nienhuis left Distel to start his own ceramic workshop named Lotus, which mainly produced decoarted tiles. The designs by Nienhuis for the Lotus show the influence of Japanese woodcuts in the stylisation of nature.
