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, turquoise
Manufacture period: 1950s
Condition: numerous thin scratches on the glaze
Signature/mark: o on m
Details:
This ceramic vase was thrown by Otto Meier probably in the 1950s and fired in the coal muffle furnace [1]. The potter Otto Meier had purchased the furnace in 1929 [2]. He later saved it 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.