BEAUTIFUL ORA DÉCOR GOUDA HOLLAND PLATE WITH MAT GOLD DETAILING

FOR SALE IS THIS BEAUTIFUL BLACK AND GOLD CERAMIC PLATE MADE IN HOLLAND.
IT IS MADE IN THE ORA DÉCOR PATTERN WITH A BLACK BASE PLATE AND MAT GOLD DECORATIONS.
 
MARKINGS: ECHT MAT GOUD STICKER AND 232 ORA AT BACK
 
SIZE: 23CM DIAMETER 4CM HIGH
 
CONDITION: NO CHIPS. NO CRACKS. GOOD VINTAGE CONDITION. WITH HANGING BRACKET AT BACK.
 
SOME ONLINE INFO ABOUT GOUDA POTTERY:
There isnt a factory called Gouda pottery; the pottery is called that because the main factories were in Gouda. Gouda (pronounced how-da) is the generic term we use for all the pottery factories in Holland all Dutch pottery other than Delftware, that is.
The area around Gouda had clay to make pots, which is why most of the factories settled there. A lot of the clay also came from England. The Dutch started producing clay pipes about 1740, and some of the factories that produced clay pipes turned to making pottery because there was demand. They didnt do it for love; they did it for profit. People wanted pottery for their home.
This style of  was pioneered in about 1898 by a company called Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland, or PZH, but they didnt produce the type of pottery on sale with this plate. That wasnt made until about 1910 when they discovered a new process to produce matte glazed pottery. It was known as the Rhodian process, which is actually the name of one of the most popular decors. It was known as matte glazed pottery.
Gouda pottery was exported by the millions all over the world. You name a country and it was exported to it; all over England, America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand. Millions of pieces were exported vases, plates, you name it. Theyre not hand-thrown, theyre all molded from liquid clay, but every one is hand-painted. Thats why there were so many different artists that worked for all the different factories.
Theyre signed on the bottom, mostly by the person that painted them. Its not really their signature in full but their initials, because when they were making them, they had to know which particular person made which pot. They were paid by the number of pots they produced, so the initial was used by the factories to determine how many pieces were made.
I suppose you could say the heyday of Gouda pottery ended in the mid-1930s with the recession, which was all over the world. After that, a lot of the factories, not just Gouda factories but factories all around the world, just simply didnt recover. During World War II, when the Germans invaded Holland, they took over the Zuid-Holland factory, and the employees were forced to make pottery for the German market. There were still some pieces made, but mainly they were forced to make pottery for the domestic German market.
 
ALSO SEE MY OTHER ITEMS LISTED. I ALSO HAVE A BATCH OF 5 GOUDA HOLLAND VASES ON AUCTION OF WHICH 3 IS FROM THE FAMOUS Plateelbakkerij Zuid-Holland (PZH). I HAVE TWO ROYAL ADDERLEY FLOWER ORNAMENTS AND A STUNNING H BEQUET BELGIUM VASE ON AUCTION THIS WEEK. ALSO VARIOUS MINIATURE VASES AND TRINKETS FROM BRAND NAME ENGLISH AND GERMAN PORCELAIN COMPANIES.