Rare ceramic planter by Dutch master potter Pieter Groeneveldt circa 1960's/70s

Offered for sale is a fine and rare ceramic planter made by Dutch master potter Pieter Groeneveldt and dating to approximately the 1960's/70's. Groeneveldt is a highly regarded studio potter who's work is prized and sought after in the Netherlands where he is held in high esteem together with a small clutch of contemporary artist potters who were career potters and innovators including Mobach,Zaalberg , Brouwer and Nienhuis. Groeneveldt studied at the Rijksacademie  in Amsterdam initially worling as a painter and sculptor before focussing on ceramic design and the production of art pottery from about 1923 onwards. He has a long working career spanning about six decades. This is a late career item made at his studio in Voorschoten which closed in 1972. It is a hand thrown earthenware bowl/planter with a fine granular textured glaze surface with subtle colour modulations resembling volcanic ash or lava. This glaze surface was developed by Groeneveldt in the early 1960s and it soon became highly fashionable and was copied by other studiod. He gave the name Travertijn to this glaze technique and clear it resembles stone or wood textured surfaces or petrified wood. Groeneveldts ceramics designs  were strongly influenced by the British Arts and Crafts movement and hand crafted pottery from the Far East particularly Japan. His preference was for simple geometrical shapes with sophisticated subtle glaze techniques, well designed  and functional items for everyday use. Groeneveldt died in 1982. The planter has the artists PG monogram impressed on the base with the inscription Made in Holland. 

Postage for this item is R120 via Postnet or R150 for courier delivery. Collection is welcome from Emmerantia Jhb