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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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  Jean E. Puiforcat / French Art Deco Sterling Box c.1930

  JEAN E. PUIFORCAT  (1897-1945)  France
  ORFÈVRERIE PUIFORCAT  Paris, France

  Sterling silver with sterling and bone gear-like finial detail

  Marks:  JEAN E. PUIFORCAT, French Guarantee mark for 950/1000 pure silver, E.P. insignia (Emile Puiforcat)

  For related works of Puiforcat see: Jean Puiforcat, Françoise de Bonneville (Paris:  Editions du Regard, 1986) p.171; Jean Puiforcat:  Orfèvre Sculpteur (Paris: Flammarion,1951).

  H: 3 1/4″ x Dia: 3 1/2″

  Jean E. Puiforcat is the most famous name of Art Deco silverwork. This is a gently tapered round footed and covered box of beautiful form and proportion with a contoured gear-like bone and silver finial. Overall it is a signature example of French Art Deco silver and dates from the late 1920’s and bears the early mark of Jean E. Puiforcat spelled out in addition to all of the appropriate French silver standard touchmarks. It is a really perfect example of French Art Deco silver by the French master of them all, Puiforcat!