Description
Type: Studio Pottery
Design: Richard Bampi (* 1896, † 1965)
Carrying out: Fayence-Manufaktur Richard Bampi, Kandern
Object: Bowl with handle
Dimensions: Height without handle: 7 cm, Height with handle: 15.5 cm, Width without handle: 15.5 cm, Width with handle: 16.5 cm
Shard: light-brown
Surface: brown and white-brownish glaze, partly with blue portion; glaze inside the bowl with craquelure
Manufacture period: 1941 – approximately 1952
Condition: partly small losses on the wraps on the handle, as well as on the handle, where it passes through the holes in the bowl
Signature/mark: RB-stamp
Details:
Thrown ceramic bowl with handles from the Fayence-Manufaktur Richard Bampi, Kandern. The bowl is marked with the RB stamp, which was used from 1941 to about 1952 [1]. Since 1941, Richard Bampi worked in part with Julius Bissier, a painter who brought the Zen Buddhism to Richard Bampi [2]. The bowl here corresponds to the aesthetics of Zen Buddhism, the Wabi-Sabi, according to which the beauty lies, among other things, in simplicity and contingency [3]. Simple are the shape and colors of the bowl, randomly the glaze runs inside and outside the shell. However, it can not be identified that the bowl is designed by Bissier.
Footnotes:
1. Verein für keramische Kunst e.V., Keramion – Museum für zeitgenössische keramische Kunst (ed.): Kunst im Keramion, 19, Richard Bampi, Frechen 1981, p. 142.
2. Verein für keramische Kunst e.V., Keramion – Museum für zeitgenössische keramische Kunst (ed.): Kunst im Keramion, 19, Richard Bampi, Frechen 1981, p. 48.
3. aus d. Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig. Einf. u. Erl. von Karla Bilang: Japanische Keramik, Leipzig 1978, p. XI.
