Jan van der Vaart, High light grey case, 1961

High light grey vase designed by Jan van der Vaart in 1961. The work is signed on the bottom with: 'VdVaart', 61 and his signature wheel. The vase originates from the J.W.N. van Achterbergh collection. 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.