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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9805581, member: 2844"]Nice vase, it looks first half of the 20th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>The second word is Swalmen, which is the name of a (former) town in Limburg, SE Netherlands. Swalmen is located between the river Meuse and the border with Germany.</p><p>The Meuse valley, with its rich river clay, has many artisan potteries, and this was probably made by one of them.</p><p>The proximity to Germany explains the German-sounding surname, Leben.</p><p><br /></p><p>So this was made in Limburg, not Holland. And the style is southern Dutch, not Hollandish.</p><p>Unfortunately many people outside the Netherlands don't know the name of our country. They only know the collective name of two of our twelve provinces, North and South Holland, so Holland. As a result some Dutch people outside Holland feel they have to mark their products 'Holland'.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie14" alt=":arghh:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 9805581, member: 2844"]Nice vase, it looks first half of the 20th century. The second word is Swalmen, which is the name of a (former) town in Limburg, SE Netherlands. Swalmen is located between the river Meuse and the border with Germany. The Meuse valley, with its rich river clay, has many artisan potteries, and this was probably made by one of them. The proximity to Germany explains the German-sounding surname, Leben. So this was made in Limburg, not Holland. And the style is southern Dutch, not Hollandish. Unfortunately many people outside the Netherlands don't know the name of our country. They only know the collective name of two of our twelve provinces, North and South Holland, so Holland. As a result some Dutch people outside Holland feel they have to mark their products 'Holland'.:arghh:[/QUOTE]
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