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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Working on some clay sketches. This little #snail is yet unfired. #sculpture

Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Moving art pieces can look a bit odd. Nobody got hurt here! This is just an earthenware hermit that was part of my temporary art installation at Vorden. #art #sculpture

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Tasty experimental archeology! I came across this medieval earthenware cookie mold, featuring an image of Mary being told by the angel Gabriel that she will give birth to Jesus. I made a replica of the cooky mold an then Noor baked a few cookies. Original mold: Kunstgewerbemuseum, 15th century

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A Roman oil lamp replica I'm working on. The original to the right was found by chance in Nijmegen. I sculpted a solid "master", around which I shaped the mould. With the mould I can make a series of lamps, just the way the Romans used to make them. #experimentalarcheology #romanpottery

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Just received my article about reconstructing a medieval puzzle jug in the mailbox. There is even an English translation included in the back of the magazine. #pottery #puzzlejug #history

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Fresh #pottery handmade after #medieval and early modern originals

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The owl beaker head and body (right) were made more than 400 years ago in the Netherlands. They are in the Boijmans van Beuningen museum. I made a replica (left). #archeology #pottery #history #majolica

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Why a jug with a #bagpipe? In #medieval times the bagpipe was a symbol for debauchery: feasting, sexuality, drinking a lot. This jug is a replica of a jug that was made somewhere between 1475 and 1550. So it all makes sense. Right? . . . #bartmannjug #pottery #puntneuskruik

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

A new #art piece in progress. These are my father's and my own faces combined. A two-faced head is also seen in #Janus, the #Roman god of transitions, new beginnings and doorways. Without knowing, we use his name often in our month #January. #pottery #clay #sculpture

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter! Three hares on a 14th century tile found at the monastry Wettingen, in Switzerland. Picture taken in castle Lenzburg. #hare #easter #medievalart #archeology

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Bottles for feeding kids have a long history! Here's a Roman and a medieval one, alongside the replicas that I made. The very round Roman bottle was found in NL (collection RMO, Leiden). The medieval jug is dated 1350-1400 (museum Boijmans van Beuningen). #archeology #history #babybottle #pottery

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Installing a suit of #armour in the new exhibition of castle #ammersoyen . This armour was forged years ago by Smederij Kloosterhuis, with my assistance. It is based on an image of Willem van Gelre kneeling before the French king Charles VI.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

When biking to the train station I saw this mysterious scene - so I turned back home, got my camera and wandered around until I captured this image. The artprint is now available in a limited edition of only five signed and numbered pieces. #photography #art #limitededitionprint #nature

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Yesterday this facejug was on Dutch television. I would like to add and correct a couple of things, see comment section. You can watch the show here. The fragment with the facejug is 15:53 - 20:25 npo.nl/start/afspel...

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Westerwald stoneware can be found in 17th century paintings, like the cheerful drinker by Judith Leyster. The jug is from Museum Rotterdam. In the frieze the letters: "H" and "K" (initials of the mould maker?). The jug was made in the beginning of the 17th century.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Ammersoyen Castle had a series of interesting residents. I'm working on a display with their family crests, based on armorials from the 14th and 15th centuries. The shields will be part of the new set-up in the castle museum. . . . #medievalhistory #heraldry #gelderland #middeleeuwen #ammersoyen

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Some new things I recently made - mostly painted majolica and redware. These are replicas of both medieval and early modern pieces. Do you want to know something about a specific piece? Let me know in the comments! #pottery #majolica #handmade #pottenbakker #aardewerk #uilenbeker #owlbeaker

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

One day before firing... tomorrow is a hot day for these cups, jugs, bowls, whorls and dishes. Most of them are replicas made after Roman, late medieval and early modern pottery. . . . #pottery #pottenbakker #ceramics #craft

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Around the year 2000 26% of Dutch people are living below sea level. . The picture is part of a series entitled "Normal". I made it in 2020. My good friend Kasper posed in the cold water as businessman. . . . #ThrowbackThursday #photography #sealevelrise #climatechange #contemporaryart #flood

A picture of a young man in suit, steering a car while the water is reaching up to his chin. He is looking rather unimpressed with the situation.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Some pottery I made for Caesar's Ford Theatre in the US. It's now traveling over the Atlantic Ocean. To the right you can see the 17th century pieces that were used for reference. . . . #pottery #archeology #history #props #keramiek #pottenbakker #handmade

four pieces of pottery: a redware pitcher, a cauldron and a bowl with green glaze on the inside and a large green cauldron.

A large group of archeological pottery and glass with many colors and different shapes. Some pieces are broken of glued together.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

I very much need to go there, even if it's just to say hello to the jug that I based this one on, and also to a stag shaped aquamanile. I love creature shaped pottery 😅

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A plate that I recently designed and made for my girlfriend. . . . #pottery #craft #art #design #kunst #beaver

A yellow plate with a scratched drawing of a beaver in the middle, floating in the middle of a floral pattern of curling leaves.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

The Louvre is a kind of majolica heaven! I visited the museum on Friday and saw this extraordinary pitcher. Dating: 1480. Made in Faenza, Italy. . . . #ceramics #pottery #renaissance #louvre #paris #art #decorativeart #faenza #majolica #kunst

A wide pitcher glazed in many colors, with the face of a boy sculpted on the belly. He's got yellow hair and a bit of a panicky look on his face.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I usually don't do cartoons but this guy makes me so angry. Wilders is a nonsense populist with dangerous xenophobic ideas. Today he took a dump on the Netherlands by dropping out of the Cabinet, blaming others while he was at the steering wheel. . . . #geertwilders #wilders #cabinetschoof

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Which piece do you like best? They are still hot from the kiln. Most of them are replicas of historical originals from the 13th to the 17th century. . . . #pottery #pottenbakker #slipware #reenactment #livinghistory #history #facepot #cup #töpfer #medieval

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Some people think air pockets in pottery are dangerous, but it's really moist💧. Water expands about 1700 times when it turns into steam... you can move a train with that! So, drying your pottery is important. And: firing GENTLY. . . . #pottery #pottenbakker #handmade #art #workinprogress #craft

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

The Roman mortarium was used for grinding food. That's why the inside has a rough surface. Below: my replica. Original: Rijksmuseum van Oudheden / dating 1-300 AD / . . . #romanhistory #romans #archeology #history #pottery #ancientcraft #romeinen #archeologie #livinghistory #reenactment

Two white earthenware bowls with a rough surface on the inside

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

My painting "Nobody's Land". So much has existed far before the existence of humans. We might consider acting less like masters of our surroundings and more like travelers. . 2021, oil on panel, 40 x 30 cm. . . . #ThrowbackThursday #painting #art #schilderij #kunst #contemporaryart #artist

A late night landscape with mountains in the background. On the front plane there's a small traveler's tent lighting up like a light bulb

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I just replaced the platform of my potter's wheel. The source: a playing card from 1455. 2nd image: my last event at #utrecht (Hanne Hansen Photography). More about my kickwheel: atelierable.nl/a-throwback-... . . . #pottery #reenactment #archeology #history #craft #pottenbakker #medievalpotter

A selfie with a happy looking straw hat dude in the woods. Behind him there's a true wonder of medieval technology: a potter's wheel that consists of a platform with a kickwheel on top.

Same dude but on a market square, using the potter's wheel in medieval attire while some people are watching

A medieval image of a female potter working with bare feet on an elegant pot in front of her on the kickwheel. There's a pile of clay in the foreground, some jugs on a shelf in the background, a red shield with a white lion to the left and the name "hefneryn" written above her head

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

So you would expect that even this special Bartmann jug was made in a series. But I haven't seen another one! Until I made this replica. Now there's a chance for me to continue the Bartmann tradition with series of this dude... and other Bartmann jugs of course!

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Although... they were made with moulds! Not one huge mould to cast the whole thing but smaller ones for different details. The jugs themselves where first thrown on the potter's wheel and then decorated with thin sheets of clay that were pressed in those moulds. . . . #experimentalarcheology

A collection of white moulds in which you recognize the details of the aforementioned Bartmann jug with hands, curls and smock shirt

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Now back to the full body Bartmann jug that I started with. The one with the pewter lid is the original that was probably made between 1525-1550 in Cologne. It's now in the Victoria and Albert museum. Bartmann jugs came in many varieties but this one, with a body and hands, is quite unique.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Here's a typical 17th century Bartmann (replica again). It's angry and it has every reason: in the 17th century, the Bartmann jug is more and more considered a storage jar instead of a prestigious jug to put on the table.

Another bulbous brown glazed jug with narrow neck and narrow foot. The face on the neck is crude and angry. There's a rosette on the belly of the jug.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

The Bartmann jug (from German "Bartmann" - bearded man) was especially popular in the 16th century. They came in many varieties, some with only a bearded face, some entirely covered in ornaments and texts. This very happy Bartman would have been common around 1600 (only this is a replica again).

A brown glazed jug with bulbous belly and a wide smile in his enormous beard.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Which Bartmann jug is 500 years old, left or right? This dude is a true masterpiece of 16th century stoneware and I've just finished my first replica. ⬇️continue reading below⬇️ . . . #handmade #archeology #history #pottery #livinghistory #ancientcraft #pottenbakker #germanstoneware #reenactment

Two brown glazed jugs besides each other. They look very similar but the right one has a pewter lid. The jugs have a chunky body that actually looks like a body of a man wearing 16th century attire with a little cape and a smock shirt appearing from under his slashed upper garment. He's got arms closely pressed against his body and he's holding a glass and a jug. He's got a small face with a full beard, mustache and curls.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

I'm trying out marbling techniques. The two small bowls are finished, the tall bottle is still in progress. The 17th century original in the picture was made in northern Italy. Marbled wares like these used to be shipped far and wide. . . #pottery #handmade #pottenbakker #history #archeology #bowl

Small red and yellow bowl on a grey background. The bowl is shiny and the red and yellow colors are whirling around each other, like the colors in marble stone.

A tall bottle with bulbous belly and for shallow handles along the sides. It is marbled in the same manner but the colors are white and ochre. The bottle is standing on a messy worktable with all kinds of stuff lying around.

A tall bottle like the one in the previous pictures, but this one is shiny and red-yellow. It's presented like a museum piece, which it is, on a white background. This bottle is part of the Victoria and Albert museum collection

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I just finished this dragon pot. The body and the lid are wheel thrown. All the other details are sculpted by hand. I fired the dragon in my wood kiln at 1250°C. . . . #dragon #handmade #pottery #sculpture #stoneware #ceramics #pottenbakker #draak

A lidded pot in the shape of a terracotta colored dragon on four legs. The body is round and has thick spikes on the back. The wings are folded close to the body and the legs are short. The head has two pointy horns on top, ears like those of a cow and a silly and mischievous expression.

The same pot but with the lid slightly lifted up by a hand

The same pot but seen from the side. Now the spiky tail is visible.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Fresh from the kiln: my first try at a filigree jug! The original jug dates back to 1550-1600 and was found in a potter's waste dump in the Aulgasse in Siegburg. Collection Boijmans van Beuningen. . . . #handmadepottery #pottenbakker #siegburg #stoneware #archeology #archeologie #livinghistory

On a grey background: a cream colored jug with a round belly, small round handle and flaring neck. The belly has been cut open in an elegant rosette-shape like in gothic architecture.

Pretty much the same jug but old and a bit more slender.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

This was one of the most important sources that I used for a reconstruction

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Here's some #pottery that I will fire tomorrow! Most of the pieces are based on historical objects. There are also some of my own designs. Ask away if you want to know more about a specific piece! #middleages #pottenbakker #potter #tilemaker #art #kunst #ambacht #craft #livinghistory #reenactment

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I made this plate with a drawing of a beech from our garden by scratching away the white top layer, revealing the brown clay underneath. Now the plate is waiting for the next firing. . . . #handmadepottery #pottery #art #decorativeart #ceramics #dutchart #kunst #design #contemporaryart #keramiek

A two-colored plate seen from above: the off white background is covered with a drawing of a large tree in brown. You only see part of the tree with the leafless branches reaching all over the surface of the plate.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Just finished scratching the decoration into this plate. Next phase is drying, then firing and glazing. I was inspired by my girlfriends' fascination for #beavers. . . . #pottery #pottenbakker #bever #kunst #art #workinprogress #sgraffito #handmadepottery #beaver

A plate seen from above with a lineair picture of a beaver that seems to be floating on the surface with curling floral motifs around it. Most of the surface of the plate is off white but the decoration is scratched into it, revealing the underlying brown clay.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I only learned yesterday that Judith was sometimes used as a symbol of resistance by the Dutch provinces that opposed the Spanish king during the 80 Years' War. This schnelle shows Judith with the triumphant text: Judith Slog Uloferus kop af: Judith cut Holofernus' head off. . . . #history

A picture of a tall white cilindrical jug with a fine relief depiction of a woman in Renaissance dress holding a sword and a head of a man. Below her is a scene of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. A piece of the jug is missing.

A picture of the museum text that belongs to this artefact. It's in Dutch and the relevant bit with the cited text from the schnelle is encircled.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

It's women's history month, so here's a short video about two women: one from the Bible and one from Rome. And of course it's about pottery as well. 🔊 . . . #womenshistorymonth #artemisiagentileschi #history #geschiedenis #judith #pottery #womeninhistory #atelierable #germanstoneware #siegburg

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

atelierable.nl/female-minia... Here's my brand new article about female miniature painters in the Middle Ages. Happy International Women's Day! . . #internationalwomensday #internationalevrouwendag #history #arthistory #geschiedenis #femaleartists #femaleempowerment #womenshistorymonth #womensday

A picture from a medieval manuscript with vines curling around a tiny figure of a woman painting or writing a page. She's wearing a red hood and behind her, some written pages are hanging from a stick on the wall.

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Aebele Trijsburg @atelierable.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Can you find the hunter and the dog hidden inside the smoke from the chimney? They were among the last residents of the house that once stood at the same location in Stitswerd. There's also a hare sprinting away. . . #kunst #bronzesculpture #sculptor #groningen #artinpublicspace #contemporaryart

a green bushy background with a bronze sculpture of a farmhouse in the foreground. Smoke is rising from the chimney, making a strong angle towards the right as if the wind is blowing it over the house.

A close-up of the smoke. A hunter is hidden in it, aiming his gun at a hare at the end of the smoke plume. A dog is standing by the side of the hunter.

The same sculpture but from a differen angle.

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