Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Paul Dresler (* 1879 – † 1950)
Execution: Grootenburg Pottery
Object: Cup
Dimensions: height: 7,6 cm, diameter: 10,5 cm
Body: light
Surface: blue, red, grey and black
Year of manufacture: 1930s
Condition: Small fine continuous hairline crack on the upper rim repaired by Gintsugi repair method with silver lacquer, that is Urushi lacquer sprinkled with powder of real silver.
Signature/mark: Two towers on water connected by a bridge
Details:
The cup from Grootenburg pottery – probably designed by Paul Dresler – dates from the 1930s. Two cups of the same shape, but each with different glazes, are illustrated in the book “Paul Dresler (1879-1950) und die Töpferei Grootenburg” on page 42, and are also dated to the 1930’s. [1]
The ceramic cup offered here has a small fine hairline crack on the top rim running on the outside and inside – that is, continuous. This crack was restored by Robert Züblin using the Gintsugi repair method. Gintsugi is a subspecies of Kintsugi restoration, which originated in Japan, and the metal used in Gintsugi is real silver, not real gold. “Gin” stands for “silver,” while “tsugi” stands for “to join.” The real silver was in the form of powder sprinkled on urushi lacquer previously applied to the crack.
Footnote:
[1] Theis, Heinz-J. (ed.): Paul Dresler (1879-1950) und die Töpferei Grootenburg, Berlin 2010, p. 42.
