Otto MEIER (* 1903, † 1996) – Vase from the 1950s

Description

Type: Studio Pottery

Design: Otto Meier (* 1903, † 1996)

Carrying out: Otto Meier (* 1903, † 1996)

Object: Vase

Dimensions: Height: 10 cm, Diameter: 10.5 cm

Shard: red

Surface: green, gray, black, pink

Manufacture period 1950s

Condition: slight glaze losses at the foot

Signature/mark: o on m

Details:
This ceramic vase was made probably in the 1950s in the coal muffle furnace [1], which the potter Otto Meier had purchased in 1929 [2] and later saved from the war-torn studio in Bremen [3].

Footnotes:
1. Reineking v. Bock, Gisela: Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Deutschland, München 1979, p. 242.
2. Klinge, Ekkart (ed.): Deutsche Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Band II, Düsseldorf 1978, p. 84.
3. Reineking v. Bock, Gisela: Keramik des 20. Jahrhunderts, Deutschland, München 1979, p. 242.