Vase in black and yellow

The Vase in black and yellow, is a product of the Ram pottery factory in Arnhem, Netherlands. The pottery painters had created delicate floral patterns with watercolour techniques on unglazed white biscuit porcelain. The manufacturers fired the products once again directly after the paintings became visual. The factory glazed the pottery with enamel paint to reach an opaque appearance. The manual manufacture was expensive, and the price was high. Many products were put up for sale through the auctions in Amsterdam and other Dutch cities.

Plateel is a Dutch word for a particular type of earthenware. This ceramic product in the Netherland had a motif painted on the pottery by a pottery painter before firing for the second time. The double-fired process had taken place in the pottery bakery.

Plateelbakkerij (Pottery bakery) Ram was founded by several directors of Dutch museums and prominent Dutch artists in 1921. The name Ram (Aries) came from the Aries constellation and was selected by Theodoor Colenbrander, a Dutch architect and famous pottery designer. He thought of the brilliance of the stars formed by the mythological arie.

In 1925, Pottery Bakery Ram won a gold medal for his garniture set, painted with the Grotto décor at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. Colenbrander as the artistic director of the pottery bakeries was a prominent leading figure of the Dutch decorative earthenware and known as the first industrial designer in the Netherlands.

Title: Two cups, vase-shaped and cup-shaped, in black and yellow.
Manufacturer: N.V. Plateelbakkerij Ram
Designer: Theo Colenbrander
Painter: Albert Peters
Location: Arnhem
Date: 1923
Measurements: Height 12.6 cm × Diameter 9.1 cm
Collection: The Rijksmuseum

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Text: Lalerou
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