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A visit to Dordrecht, which was an important Hanseatic trade hub

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dordrecht?wprov=sfti1

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To cater to these more demanding customers it was also necessary to include good decoration, ideally on a par of what was possible in pewter.

For this the Rhine/Meuse area is perfect.

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Well worth a visit

https://keramion.de

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A series of posts on Rhenish Stoneware
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What next:

- Revisit Langerwehe
- [Museum Hetjens](https://www.duesseldorf.de/hetjens) in Düsseldorf
- Visit the [Westerwald](https://www.keramikmuseum.de)
- Explore a bit (but only a bit) how masters and journeymen moved between potteries at different locations and how the craft spread
- Have a quick peek at demographics and affluence, what were the typical buyers of stoneware
- Glance at the numbers, apparently there were millions of stoneware jugs made

14/14 for now

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More possible side quests:

- [Kölner Malerschule](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_school_of_painting)
- [Flemish Painting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemish_painting)

These two styles influenced each other and Cologne painters worked in Flanders and Flemish painters in Cologne.

This could be linked to the printing trade including woodcuts, see also the [Global spread of the printing press](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_spread_of_the_printing_press)

I now reigning myself in. I don't want to become an expert. I'm more of a [dilettante in the 18th century meaning](https://www.wordorigins.org/big-list-entries/dilettante), ideally a broadband dilettante

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