Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Gerhard Meisel (* 1903, † 1979)
Carrying out: Gerhard Meisel (* 1903, † 1979)
Object: Pipe ashtray
Dimensions: Height: 6 cm, Width: 13 cm
Shard: red-brown
Surface: white, gray, brown, light blue, violet
Year of manufacture: between 1949 and 1968
Condition: undamaged
Signature/mark: G. Meisel STAHNSDORF
Details:
This hand-modeled pipe ashtray made of ceramic is an example of the sculptural skills of the ceramist Gerhard Meisel. In 1949 Meisel had founded his own studio in Stahnsdorf in the south of Berlin [1].
Footnote:
1. Klinge, Ekkart (ed.): Deutsche Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Band II, Düsseldorf 1978, p. 90.
