{"id":78966,"date":"2025-08-13T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78966\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T06:03:15","slug":"beyond-blue-and-white-new-book-dives-into-the-hidden-history-of-delftware-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78966\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beyond Blue and White&#8217;: New book dives into the &#8216;Hidden History of Delftware&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"Delftware. (Robin Young\/Here &amp; Now)\"  width=\"880\" height=\"495\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755064995_468_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    Delftware. (Robin Young\/Here &amp; Now)<\/p>\n<p>Delftware is the iconic ceramic from the Dutch city of Delft: blue and white painted tiles, dishes and flower pots. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/genevievewheeler.com\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Genevieve Wheeler Brown<\/a>, an expert in the decorative arts, has traced the history of these dazzling, cobalt glazed pieces, as they fueled the Dutch Republic economy in the early 1600s and then enjoyed waves of popularity, including the Delft craze in the late 1800s in America, when women would go on \u201cChina hunts,\u201d knocking on doors in search of old delft.<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"A Dutch Delftware Blue and White Large Plate, De Klaauw, (The Claw) Factory, ca. 1725-40. (Courtesy of The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York)\"  width=\"880\" height=\"880\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755064995_524_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    A Dutch Delftware Blue and White Large Plate, De Klaauw, (The Claw) Factory, ca. 1725-40. (Courtesy of The National Society of Colonial Dames in the State of New York)<\/p>\n<p>Her book is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Blue-White-History-Delftware\/dp\/1639368914\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Beyond Blue and White, the Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind The Iconic Ceramic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"An artist hand paints delftware. (Robin Young\/Here &amp; Now)\"  width=\"880\" height=\"1173\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755064995_690_\"\/><\/p>\n<p>    An artist hand paints delftware. (Robin Young\/Here &amp; Now)<\/p>\n<p>By Genevieve Wheeler Brown<\/p>\n<p>Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Pegasus Books. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>This article was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/hereandnow\/2025\/08\/12\/beyond-blue-and-white-delftware\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WBUR.org.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"fullattribution\"> Copyright 2025 WBUR <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delftware. (Robin Young\/Here &amp; Now) Delftware is the iconic ceramic from the Dutch city of Delft: blue and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-78966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}