Painted ceramic sculpture vase, 50s. Present identification tag: "382. ROLANDO HETTNER - Vaso cilindrico decorato".

Giò Ponti about Rolando Hettner: "Hettner, who I respect a lot and am a close friend of mine, asked me to present his ceramics. I presented his pieces of" dark cobalt blue ", the series of intense" copper "greens and those burnt-colored, in browns and iron yellows: here there is an artist Hettner, creator in his personality: that is the Hettner that we must know, recognize and love Hettner is a ceramist and a consummate decorator, for the which all other procedures have no secrets: but this is another thing, it is skill. "
Taken from the catalog of the exhibition TERRA & TERRA, presenze negli anni cinquanta, Laveno Mombello, 1989