Jan van der Vaart, Pair of ceramic candle holders with bronze glaze, multiples, 1981

Two ceramic candle holders with bronze glaze by Jan van der Vaart. Multiples from his own studio. Signed on the bottom with: 'VdVaart' and his signature wheel. The design is from 1981 and is manufactured in both ceramic and porcelain. 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.