Jan van der Vaart, Unique ceramic vase with green glaze, 1973

Unique vase with a green glaze, designed by Jan van der Vaart in 1973. Signed at the bottom with: 'VdVaart', 73 and 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 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.