Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Jan Bontjes van Beek (* 1899, † 1969)
Carrying out: Jan Bontjes van Beek (* 1899, † 1969)
Object: Bowl
Dimensions: Height: 6.5 cm, Width: 24 cm
Shard: Light
Surface: blue, green, yellow, wine-red, black
Year of Manufacture: around 1963
Condition: undamaged
Signature/mark: B, reversed B, dash, V and dot
Details:
The glaze of this ceramic bowl by Jan Bontjes van Beek looks like a black oil spot glaze. But in fact the glaze is a mixture of blue, green and yellow. The “oil spots” are only very subtle on the glaze and are sometimes only very sporadic.
The bowl probably dates from around 1963. In the catalogue of the Bontjes exhibition, which took place from December 1977 to January 1978 in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, a bowl with a similar shape is dated 1963 [1]. In addition, the catalogue says that that bowl was produced in Hamburg, which is why this bowl here can also be assumed to have come from Hamburg.
Footnote:
1. Braumann, Bernhard: Jan Bontjes van Beek, 1899-1969, Ausstellung in der Akademie der Künste vom 11. Dezember 1977 bis 22. Januar 1978, Akademie-Katalog 116, pp. 64-65.
