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  Jan Van Der Vaart / Dutch Avant-Garde Pottery “I-beam” Vase, 1991

  JAN VAN DER VAART (1931-2000) The Netherlands

  I-beam vase 1991

  Matte bronze glazed stoneware

  Signed: 91 VD VAART (incised)

  For more information on Van der Vaart and his work see: Jan van der Vaart, Ceramics, Marjan Unger, et al. (The Netherlands: Stichting Harten Fonds, 1991); Jan van der Vaart Multipels 1967-1997, Allaard Hidding (Leeuwarden: Keramiekmuseum Het Princessehof, 1997), illus. 88, p. 88.

  H: 9 1/2” x W: 10 1/8” x D: 5 1/2”

  Price: $8,000

  Jan van der Vaart, born in 1931, is one of the Netherlands’ best known potters. He was not only a trend-setting artist and industrial designer, he also taught an entire generation of Dutch ceramicists while teaching at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam (1968-1990). His work is in the collection of many Dutch museums, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

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  Gorham Sterling “Exotic” Tea and Coffee Set in Original Presentation Chest 1880

  GORHAM MFG. CO SILVERSMITHS   Providence, RI

  “Exotic” tea and coffee set in original Gorham presentation chest   1880

  Sterling silver 5-piece service with “butler” finish, bright-cut chasing and repoussé surface in the Far Eastern exotic style with elephant trunk spouts and handle forms, tent-like splayed lids, interior gilding, engraved conjoined initials, bone spacers in the original deep teal velvet-covered presentation chest with hot pink silk- satin interior

  Marks:  Gorham marks, STERLING, 1560, “M” (date mark for 1880)
  Lid of case interior stamped in gold:  Gorham Mfg. Co., Sterling Silver, Union Square, NY

  Coffeepot: H: 5 3/4” handle-to-spout: 9 1/4” (length);
  teapot: H: 4”;
  sugar w/ lid: H: 4”;
  waste bowl: H: 2 1/2”;
  cream: H:  2 3/4”;
  chest:  H: 7” x W: 21” x D: 15”

  For related pieces and further information see:  Gorham Silver 1831-1981, Charles H. Carpenter, Jr., Chapter 6, “Innovation and Fantasy”, p. 94-121 (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1982); In Pursuit of Beauty: Americans and the Aesthetic Movement, Chapter 8,“Metalwork: An Eclectic Aesthetic” by David Hanks, p.253-294 (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Rizzoli, 1987); Silver in America, 1840-1940: A Century of Splendor, Charles L. Venable, Chapter 6, “Consumption and Design” p.123-204, (New York: Dallas Museum of Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1995).