Wholesale House Canal House No. 4 - Delft Blue - Ceramic - 14 cm

Decorate your home with the coziest little street in the Netherlands. This Delft Blue decorative house is a miniature canal house with a raised neck gable, which was widely built in the Netherlands especially in the 16th century. These canal houses are usually tall, narrow and deep because taxes were levied based on the width of the façade. On the façade you can sometimes still see a special beam sticking out that was used to hoist merchandise up so the goods were protected from floods. Amsterdam’s canal belt is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and has become an iconic image of the Netherlands. This cute Delft Blue canal house is a decorative figurine for the home. The series of houses consists of different types of canal houses, each with a characteristic façade. When you place them all next to each other, you create your own picturesque little canal belt.