The paper deals with the phenomenon of Hollandism in European functional ceramics in 1880-1945, a very common at the time tendency to adorn kitchen utensils with blue-and-white patterns featuring the motif of a windmill, making reference to the products coming from Dutch manufactories (mainly from Delft). The tendency was most widespread in Germany, Austria, France, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, appearing only occasionally in the Netherlands. Discussed in the paper are styles and decoration techniques, as well as the social contexts of the phenomenon and its relations with the unusually powerful in Europe myth of Holland regarded at the time to be the model of burghers’ virtues.
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