Mobach Keramiek - Rainbow vase - Sold

Rainbow vase From the Rainbow series (see also rainbow bowl by Mobach, design: Piet Knepper) 27.5 cm high approx. 14 cm belly Design Joke Stroes Signed by Joke Stroes Marked with Mobach ca 1965 Large and beautifully intact vase 1000 grams The company was founded in 1895 in Utrecht as the Utrechtsche Pottenfabriek by Klaas Jaan Mobach, who came from a Frisian pottery family. Several generations continued the business. The process of making ceramics has remained virtually the same throughout history. The pottery is turned in small series or as unique pieces or manually constructed from clay rolls or plates, after which it is glazed. The man-sized planters and vases in particular are well-known ceramic products from Mobach. Piet Klaarhamer and Gerrit Rietveld designed a number of vases. The factory building dating from 1913 on the Kanaalweg along the Merwede Canal, together with three associated workers' houses, have the status of national monument. Part of the collection is housed in a museum at that location that is open once a year. At Oudegracht 198, the Mobach family also ran a shop since 1910 where they sold their ceramics. The shop was taken over by another owner in 1970 and moved to Choorstraat in 1975. Under the name Mobach, it was a specialty store in design articles that existed there until 2014.