In 2008 and 2013, the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts in Leipzig presented two representative inventory publications under the title "Gefäss / Sculpture. German and International Ceramics since 1946," which attracted great interest from around the world and were regarded as standard reference works. This third volume continues the series, against a backdrop of a renewed and extensive increase of modern studio ceramics in the museum's collection. As in the previous publications, the objects in the book enter into aesthetic dialogues, thus facilitating interesting perspectives in the development of artistic ceramics up to the present day. In doing so, it becomes clear how ceramic objects are developing from a servient-functional gesture into increasingly consistent autonomous artworks, yet without necessarily losing the vessel theme. Its multitude of current artists' biographies and illustrations of modern ceramics enriches the narrative.