Brocante clouded grey DRU cooking pan with C-shaped handles and grey enamel

Brocante clouded grey DRU cooking pan with C-shaped handles and grey enamel.

• Producer: Dutch, H. Berk and son / manufacturer: Diepenbrock en Reigers (DRU)
• Manufacturing date: 1950s - 1960s

Description
Beautiful round grey clouded brocante saucepan with an edge or notch for the lid made by DRU. On the sides, flat C-shaped handles. Slightly domed lid with curved rim and C-shaped handle. Very light damage to the top edge of the pan. Otherwise, in excellent condition. A beautiful pan for a brocante or farm kitchen and still very useful.

Condition
This grey clouded enamel cooking pan is in a neat brocante condition with normal traces of wear and age-related traces of wear. Photos are part of wear and tear.

Size

• Height: 11.5 cm.
• Width (with handles): 28 cm.
• Diameter: 21.5 cm.

Enamel is the protective layer of molten glass applied to metal or earthenware objects to protect, insulate or decorate them.

An enamel layer has several useful properties: enamel is very smooth (hygienic), it is very hard, non-flammable and durable, it is very resistant to the effects of chemical substances and to discolouration by UV radiation (high colour fastness). Metal is protected against corrosion by the enamel layer. The enamel layer also becomes decorative by adding coloured oxides.

Metals that can be enamelled include copper, aluminium, stainless and plain steel, cast iron, gold, and silver. Because an enamel layer is less flexible than the metal on which it is applied, it can crack if handled without care and pieces can even come off.

Metal outer surfaces of cooking appliances, pans and the like are traditionally enamelled. Predominantly white enamel is used here. Other colours were also used for the paraffin stove and pans, such as reseda green, dark green, petrol blue, black, red, orange flamed, mint green, cream and grey clouded. However, some of these versions are outdated.

Examples of enamel kitchen items are sand-soap-soda, milk cooker, coffee and teapots, pans, storage containers, lunch boxes, spoon rack, nest bowls, colander, paraffin stove, soap dish, measuring cup, sconce, ewer, kettle, buckets and much more.

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