Very large Kalahari Bowl South Africa around End of the 1950s.  Beautiful African motif with elegant lady on white background. Probably unique(?), colorful & almost as new condition, no chips, missing parts, etc.. Measures 36 x 4 cm. Museal art object from the ceramic factory Kalahari, verso company stamp & inscribed "Kalahari Made In S.Africa"

Kalahari Studio (active 1948-1973), viewed as the pre-eminent ceramic studio in South Africa during the 1950s, was one of the production potteries that frequently used African designs as decorative elements. Examples of their work were included in the Designs on Africa display case. The Studio was started by two Latvian immigrants, Alexander (Sacha) Klopcanovs (1912-1997) and his wife, Elma Vestman (1914-1991). Both were trained in the arts in Northern Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s, and arrived in South Africa in the late 1940s. In 1948 they set up the Kalahari Studio in Johannesburg, relocating to Cape Town in 1950. Their work reflected a merging of Northern European Modernist design trends and philosophies, with indigenous South African imagery

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