Denmark has centuries old tradition for ceramics and seen in proportion to
the population there has been a wealth of potteries. Nearly each village had
it's own potter, good many, already at that time (19th century), well known
also abroad.
We begin in the 19th century on Bornholm (a small islands in the Baltic Sea)
Michael Andersen & Son, Roenne, Bornholm (1890-) .The factory was founded by
the potter Jens Michael Andersen, who's 4 sons all were trained potter,
working at the factory.
At the beginning the production was mainly kitchen
ware and models of works
from the connected artists, Greek vases and antediluvian pots.
The oldest son Daniel Folkmann Andersen (1885-1959) was the most creative
and artistic of the four and from 1905 he put his stamp on the artistic
development of the factory.
He started the production of things with
decoration of animals or plants with glaze in 4-5 colours in lead majolica,
all in that times Jugendstyle.
The brother Michael Ejner Andersen introduced
in the 1920th the Majolica series "Dania" and "Kobolt" in the same
Jugendstyle.
In 1935 Daniel Andersen innovation "the Persia Technique" gets the gold
medal on the World Exhibition in Brussels.
In 1890th the factory used the pres mark "Michael Andersen" in gothic types
1916-1930 the same only then in Latin letters
and from 1930 "3 herrings" (the Town Arms of Roenne).
Some things can be marked "C.V. Kjaer" who were a merchant in Copenhagen,
who orders ceramics after his own sketches with say relief decorations.
Today the factory has only a small production of a few things.
