RUST ORANGE ‘ANKARA’ FUNNEL-MOUTH VASE BY HELMUT SCHOLTIS FOR CARSTENS ART045 A lovely 'Silvana' Series Op-Art

A lovely 'Silvana' Series Op-Art cylinder form vase designed by Ernst Fenzl and produced in bisque porcelain in the 1970s by the Bareuther Porcelain company

The prize underscored MICHAEL ANDERSEN & SØN's position as a leading innovator among Danish potteries

but made and decorated by her own hand)

although one chronicler of the Paris art world of the 1950s wrote glowingly about the young artist at that time:

RUST ORANGE ‘ANKARA’ FUNNEL-MOUTH VASE BY HELMUT SCHOLTIS FOR CARSTENS ART045 A lovely 'Silvana' Series Op-ArtA well proportioned, funnel mouth vase in rusty orange and graphitea variation of the Ankara dcor designed in 1963 by Helmut Scholtis for CARSTENS TNNIESHOF. Ankara is a great example of the "wax resist" technique, whereby a base glaze is applied, fired, and cooled, then drawn on with wax and painted over with a top glaze. During a second firing, the wax melts away to reveal the design in negative. Hand thrown in the 1970s. CARSTENS TNNIESHOF was