Terra Cotta Incognita

About Terra Cotta Incognita

Terra Cotta Incognita is an Archaeological Research & Design Studio in Zaandijk (the Netherlands) run by Nina Linde Jaspers. She co-operates nationally and internationally on archaeological and art-historical projects with a wide range of specialists, scientists, archaeologists and artists. Eye for detail and a broader vision go hand in hand. She gathers her freelance projects & academic research on late medieval and early modern domestic ceramics (i.e. production, exchange, use and typology) under the flag of Terra Cotta Incognita.

Research Special interest goes out to early modern maritime trade ceramics, provenance and distribution studies on internationally traded tin glazed ceramics and analyses of production waste and product lines from ceramic workshops.

Design The love for combining graphic design, artistic photography, illustrations and substantive archaeological research on material culture enhances the archaeological narrative in a visually expressive manner. Results from different archaeological material substudies (e.g. ceramic, glass, wood, metal, textile, archaeozoological, archeobotanical, etc.) are synthesized and integrated into one story and presented in beautiful still life photography.

Keywords

• Archaeology
• Archaeometry
• Ceramics
• Editing
• Graphic Design
• Late Medieval And Early Modern Material Culture
• Maritime Trade Ceramics
• Photography
• Research

Address

• Headquarters

  Tuinstraat 27A1544RS ZaandijkNoord-Holland, Netherlands

Team by function

Based on 3 public job profiles as of 4 September 2026.

• Research / R&D2
• Founder / Owner1