LARGE BAY KERAMIK RELIEF DÉCOR VASE Nr. 60/45 1 Returning to Italy in 1957

Returning to Italy in 1957

celebrating Swedish design during “The Year of Design

Production Year – 1982

A beautiful offset lithograph of 'La Danseuse Creole' (The Creole Dancer) by Henri Matisse

His graphic works of the period often suggested images of bombed cities

LARGE BAY KERAMIK RELIEF DÉCOR VASE Nr. 60/45 1 Returning to Italy in 1957A dark blue relief decor vase with azure highlights from Bay Keramik. BAY KERAMIK was founded in 1934 by Eduard Bay in Ransbach Baumbach, a small town in the heart of the Kannenbckerland in western Germany. (The Kannenbckerland, or "potters' land"a historic center of ceramics industryis the site of the largest clay deposit in Europe.) Its output was primarily utilitarian prior to the early 1950s when more and more decorative items were introduced.