Cylinder vase Fish in white and blue

Cylinder Vase Fish

The fish is central to this cylinder vase (30,5 cm high). In a cozy school, they swim endlessly around the vase. No beginning and no end. From different sides, you always see a different fish. At first glance, they look identical, but if you look closely, small differences stand out. One swims stubbornly against the current, the other has a big smile, while the other stares straight ahead. Fish and Heinen Delft Blue have always had a special connection. For example, father Jaap Heinen was already painted in the harbor of the fishing village of Spakenburg in the 1970s, and grandfather Heinen braved the sea as a fisherman on a fishing vessel.

The Heinen story

It starts at the end of the ’70s when Jaap Heinen who draws and paints in Japanese and Chinese Imari style, also starts to paint in Delft blue. In Putten, he begins a small atelier in which he also glazes and bakes. His son Jorrit joins. When - starting from 2007 - the demand for hand-painted Delft blue falls back, Jaap and Jorrit open their own factory in China which produces in Putten designed earthenware, focused on the souvenir market. Hand painting, however, remains a passion and it grows again in popularity since 2015. Employing the best designers, decorators, and ceramic technicians and with love for the centuries-old Delft blue craft, Heinen brings Delft blue tradition and innovation: Creating new traditions. The Heinen KLEI collection proves that this goes further than the traditional color combination of blue and white.