Maastricht is known for its pottery industry (Sphinx, Mosa, Ceramique) where countless floor and wall tiles were produced. It is a pity that so little is left of the more artistic tile tableaux..
And those that (still) do exist, are mainly unknown to the general public. Such as this one in the former carriage entrance of GRAND HOTEL DU LEVRIER & DE L'AIGLE NOIR, Boschstraat 76.
And the irony is, these tile pictures are not even Maastricht pottery, because they were manufactured around 1900 in the Belgian 'Manufacture de Ceramiques Décoratives - Majoliques de Hasselt'.
Den Hasenwind' on the Boschstraat had been a renowned hotel since 1800. When the opposite "L'Aigle noir" moved in with the Hasenwind in 1897, the name changed to "Grande hotel du levrier et de l'aigle noir". It must have been in this period that the large tile pictures in the walls of the carriage entrance were installed. Around 1895, tile panels in vestibules and carriage entrances were a fashionable and modern phenomenon - also in an international context - although weather resistance and easy maintenance must also have played a role. The hotel existed until 1950. Then the hotel became the headquarters of the professional hotel school and then, after a four-year vacancy, from 1975 the headquarters of the industrial bank LIOF. Since 2020, it has been a Grand Hotel again.
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