Rosenthal Studio-Line Liguria Hand Painted Bowl Striking original Rosenthal porcelain hand painted bowl Series LIGURIA designed by Gilbert Portanier and made in Germany for Studio-Linie. The bowl features multi-color abstract designs with gold on a matt dark lilac blue ground. Signed with the artist's signature PORTANIER printed in gold within the pattern and marked Rosenthal Studio-Linie Germany at the base. Limited Art by Rosenthal studio-line: The Originals of our time. A colorful bowl that is always in the center of attention. -GILBERT PORTANIER- In 1948, Gilbert Portanier, a painter, discovered clay as a material to work with at Vallauris, the ceramics centre in the south of France. There he developed his unique style in the medium. What is so significant about his early work iş his mastery of drawing on pottery. In the early years, Gilbert Portanier drew with the brush on his pieces mainly Arcadian genre scenes inspired by Greco-Roman antiquity. On the look-out for new colour combinations, colour textures and colour compositions, however, Gilbert Portanier gradually distanced himself from drawing and switched to free painting on ceramics. Every öne of his pieces belongs in a museum, thus Picasso commenting on Portaniers painterly ceramics And indeed Portanier, like no other, conjures colourful, sürrealist abstract-figurative paintings on the ceramics he has designed. In his pieces, the Mediterranean delight in representing and communicating comes into its own. The inexhaustible riches of Portaniers teeming ımagination are unique in the ınternational ceramics scene, a status that has been justly rewarded with -numerous ınternational prizes and awards