Jaap Ravelli - 'Mask' black and white earthenware vase

Jaap Ravelli
Dutch
'Mask' black and white earthenware vase
c.1970

incised 'Ravelli 70' to the underside
glazed earthenware
height: 24cm; diameter: 16cm

Notes

Jaap Ravelli was one of the Netherlands' foremost post-war ceramic designers, establishing Potterie Ravelli in Valkenburg in1947.

He produced a series of highly distinctive black and white ceramics inspired by African art, rendered in a bold, modernist graphic style.