Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Gerda Körting (* 1911, † 2000)
Carrying out: Gerda Körting
Object: vase
Dimensions: height: 12.7 cm, width: 12 cm
Shard: dark brown
Surface: dark brown, red-brown
Period of manufacture: probably 1960s/ 1970s
Condition: undamaged
Signature/mark: human figure on GK
Details:
This vase made of manganese-clay by Gerda Körting stands out because of the hole pattern on the unglazed belly of the vase, also called Rädel decoration. As it is a GDR pottery, it is possible that the aim here was to save glaze material, because certain fabrics were not available in the former GDR, at least for a time.
However, it may simply have been aesthetically intended to work with structures in the clay instead of glazing the entire ceramic, especially since other members of the Saalfeld Group (Saalfelder Künstlergruppe), which included Gerda Körting, Karl Jüttner and Gerhard Dölz, often used the same style by working a structure into the unglazed clay in the belly area of the ceramic vases instead of glaze.
