Hildo Krop for ESKAF, Stoneware tile with openwork decoration, 1921-1924

This tile of reddish-brown metallic stoneware with a representation of a fox was designed by Hildo Krop around 1921-1924. This type of architectural ceramics, executed by ESKAF, was used to decorate the entrance of jewelry store Steltman at the Noordeinde in The Hague, in the interior of the main hall of the bank building of the Rotterdam bank association on the Kneuterdijk in The Hague and on the facade of the former Trade School and the Comenius Lyceum (now the Berlage Lyceum) in the J.P. Takstraat in Amsterdam. Thanks to their openwork, the ajour tiles form a beautiful decoration on the southern facades of these school buildings of light-colored stone.