Dutch Ship Tiles

Pluis, Jan: Primavera Leiden, softcover, 95 pages, illustrated. This historical study explores the production and evolution of painted wall tiles featuring maritime imagery across major Dutch pottery centers from 1660 to 1980. Jan Pluis details the seventeenth-century rise of these luxury goods, their subsequent decline, and the nineteenth-century revival that inspired new generations of ship tile designs. ISBN 9789059972629 New