Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: probably Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain [attributed], maybe Franz Wildenhain [attributed]
Carrying out: Studio “Het Kruikje” ('t Kruikje) [attributed]
Object: cups with saucers
Dimensions: set 1: cup: height: 5.4 cm, width: 9.8 cm, saucer: height: 1.5 cm, width: 12.5 cm; set 2: cup: height: 5.1 cm, width: 9.8 cm, saucer: heigth: 1.7 cm, width: 12.5 cm
Shard: brown
Surface: white, blue, brown
Year of Manufacture: 1930s/1940s
Condition: nicks on the feet of 2 cups and one plate, probably due to production, these nicks are possibly minimal chips (flea bites), but not visible in normal position of cup on plate.
Signature/mark: without
Details:
The cups and saucers are unsigned, but according to the previous owner, they come from a larger context of service pieces that would have included ceramics that had a Het Kruikje ('t Kruikje) designation. Moreover, the previous owner of the cups and saucers was a collector from Holland, who in turn acquired the ceramics from an elderly gentleman, and the parents of this elderly gentleman owned an arts and crafts store in Holland in the pre-war period, where Het Kruikje pottery was carried.
However, the style of the glaze alone suggests that the ceramics come from the Het Kruikje workshop, and were made by Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain, who learned pottery at the Bauhaus. Of course, there is a possibility that the pieces were designed by her husband Franz Rudolf Wildenhain (Frans Wildenhain), who was also a Bauhaus student. The pieces were executed either by Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain, Franz Rudolf Wildenhain, or an employee or apprentice of the workshop Het Kruikje ('t Kruikje).
Given the information that the arts and crafts store began to include Het Kruikje ceramics in its assortment around 1938/1939, the pieces were dated to the 1930s/1940s.
