Jan van der Vaart, grey and green glazed stoneware with double collar, 1961

Grey and green glazed stoneware vase with double collar, executed by Jan van der Vaart in his own studio in 1961. Jan van der Vaart belongs to the first generation of ceramic artists that revived the practice of ceramics in the Netherlands in the 1950s. He introduced a new vision on form and colour based on the Bauhaus tradition. When he gets appointed to head teacher of ceramics on the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, his influence on the development of Dutch ceramics is easy to trace. Around fifteen years later his work is internationally acknowledged.