LE COMTE, Adolf
Dutch potter. After completing polytechnic studies, Le Comte went to the arts and crafts schools at Karlsruhe and Nuremberg, followed in 1872-74 by a course at the studio for interior design in Paris. From 1877 to 1915, he was artistic director of the tile manufacturer De Porcelyne Fles in Delft. In his early years there, he borrowed patterns from the Renaissance, but his designs were rarely used by the old-fashioned company.
In 1895, he developed a new kind of ceramic, such as that was already being produced at the Haagsche Plateelbakkerij Rozenburg. He took his inspiration from Persian ceramics. Later he did designs for building ceramics, including work at Hamburg Zoo.