Cooking Apron
Goldfinch

Kitchen apron Goldfinch

This apron from Tante Bella en Tante is an ode to the painting The Goldfinch by Carel Fabritius, one of the best-known works from the Mauritshuis collection. This special cooking apron from Het Puttertje now allows you to take this masterpiece home or give it as a gift. You cook in style with this beautiful apron made of 100% cotton, one size fits all.

Fabritius' Goldfinch

Carel Fabritius painted this lifelike portrait of this bird in 1654. The red mask, the striking yellow feathers, and the shining beady eye. Chained to his food bowl with a chain attached to his leg. Fabritius was a contemporary of Vermeer and a promising student of Rembrandt. His career was unfortunately quite short. In the year that he painted The Goldfinch, he died at the age of 32 due to the explosion of a powder storage a stone's throw from his studio in Delft. Only twelve paintings by him are known.

Tante Bella & Tante Jo

Is the apron label of Maan and Suus Ketterings. Inspired by and named after the aunts Tante Bella and Tante Jo, sisters of their grandmother. They were always busy. In and around the house and in your vegetable garden – dressed in colorful aprons. They made their liqueur from walnuts and the cellar was full of preserving bottles with cherries on brandy, stewed pears, and jam. Time seemed to have no grip on the aunts' lifestyle. They did not let the latest whims drive them crazy but held on to an enduring quality. That quality of life, that imperturbable adherence to what is good, has strongly inspired Maan and Suus and to translate this into a collection of contemporary aprons.