ATTRACTIVE Signed “archipel” GOUDA, 12″ GOURD-SHAPED VASE, c. 1920-30

This wonderful Gouda Delftware vase is a gourd shape, comprised of a smaller bulbous vase “neck” atop an elongated bulbous body and finished with a round, flat foot. 

The top of the neck, lower third of the neck, bottom quarter of the vase and the foot are a muted green. Between the wide green bands, the vase is handsomely decorated with loosely painted, stylized geometric banding. The decorative bands occur below the lip, at the base of the neck and on the body of the vase, in shades of green, white, blue, yellow and rust.

Gouda was manufactured in numerous factories in that city in Holland and had its heyday from the late 1800s until the 1930s.