Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Willem Verstraeten bụ nwa Antwerp ahịa Jean de la Rue, onye hapụrụ Antwerp eleghị anya n'oge na-adịghị anya mgbe
ọdịda nke Antwerp wee kwaga na Northern Netherlands, na-asụgharị aha French ya na Dutch "Jan Verstraeten". Ọ kwagara Haarlem n'afọ 1590. O yikarịrị ka a mụrụ Willem obere oge ka nke ahụ gasịrị na Haarlem, nna ya zigara ya Delft na 1613, ebe Willem rụrụ ọrụ na ụlọ ọrụ "De Porceleyne Schotel". N'afọ 1617, e dekọrọ Willem n'ebe ahụ dị ka "onye nkwekọrịta". N'afọ 1625 ọ laghachiri Haarlem ebe o mepere ụlọ ọrụ porcelain nke ya "Geleyer Plateelbackerije" na Begijnhof ebe o mere "Hollands Porceleyn". Ọ ga-abụrịrị na ọ nwere ike ime ka azụmahịa ya too ngwa ngwa, n'ihi na na 1628 "Willem Jansz op het Begijnhof" ka Samuel Ampzing kwuru dị ka onye a ma ama "plateel" onye na-emepụta ihe. Ebe nchekwa ihe ochie nke Delft na Haarlem nwere akwụkwọ ndị na-egosipụta akụkụ dị iche iche nke ndụ ya na nke ụmụ ya, ọkachasị Gerrit onye gara n'ihu na-azụ ahịa ya na Haarlem. Willem bụ onye ọchụnta ego nwere ihe ịga nke ọma ma na-arụ ọrụ ndị isi na Haarlem Guild nke St. Luke site na 1638. Ọ nwụrụ na Haarlem n'afọ 1655.