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A beautiful blue glazed stoneware vase with geometric shapes, made by Jan van der Vaart in 1991. This multiple is designed in 1989 and manufactured in three colours and sizes (h. 16,5-24-28,5 cm in bronze, black and blue). This vase is the biggest size. It is signed on the bottom with: 'VdVaart', '91' and his signature wheel. 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 as head teacher of ceramics at the Gerrit 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.