Wilhelm Süs Karlsruhe Majolica joyful bowl

We bought this large ceramic Jardinière "Kinderreigen" this January for about 150 U$. not so cheap though I found on the web the cost is much higher https://www.ebay.de/itm/Karlsruher-Majolika-Jardiniere-Schale-6-Putti-Modell-1093-Putto-Wilhelm-Suess-10-/232634841482.
We went to a shop that usually is not very nicer for us but I saw this jugendstil or Art Deco imposing object and fell in love with it. Wilhelm Süs designed it around 1910 by for the Karlsruhe majolica manufactory. It stand on six short legs, and the oval bowl has a great round cavity that let a room of air between the base and the bowl so that you put something hot the base remains cold.
The best of all are the six nude putti holding a flower and fruit garland, you can see there three different models because of the way in whiche they hold the garland. Rich polychrome underlay painting in green, blue, ocher, violet and amber, upper and lower edge black eor dark blu. Length 34 cm, width 23 cm, height 11.5 cm. Ground handwritten in blue with mark of the "Großherzogliche Majolikamanufaktur Karlsruhe", form number "1093".
The majolica manufactory Karlsruhe stands for a hundred years for a successful history of living arts and crafts. On January 4, 1901, the Baden Grand Duke Frederick I, on the recommendation of the two painters and graphic artists Hans Thoma and Wilhelm Süs gave the approval for the construction of a workshop building in Karlsruhe. The architect Friedrich Ratzel was entrusted with the task of constructing a suitable building in the Schlossgarten Park. In 1901, the completed building was handed over to the first director and artistic director Wilhelm Süs. At the same time, the Grand Duke approved "that the newly founded ceramic institution is called the Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory, and its products are signed with corresponding trademarks." At the beginning, the art stood out - bold and unconventional, like the spirit of optimism at the beginning of the 20th century, reflecting on the spirit of renewal of Art Nouveau, influenced by the free spirit of the painter Hans Thoma and the Italian-inspired ceramics.
Information about Wilhelm Süs:
born on 30.6.1861 in Dusseldorf - died on 6.12.1933 in Mannheim
German painter, graphic artist and ceramist. Son of the animal painter Konrad Gustav Süs. 1879-84 student of the Academy in Dusseldorf with Crola, Peter Janssen, Eduard von Gebhardt and in Dresden with Leon Pohle. 1886 studied at Fehle in Dresden and was influenced by Hans Thoma. Settled after a short stay in Munich in Frankfurt am Main, relocated in 1893 at Thomas's suggestion to Kronberg in the Taunus. Since 1898 the "Keramisches Ateliers Kronberg am Taunus", together with the engineer Karl Vogel and the porcelain painter Wilhelm Becker, whose products were partly inspired by the majolics of the Italian Renaissance and were partly executed according to designs by Thoma. In 1901 the studio was relocated to Karlsruhe founding the Grand Ducal Majolica Manufactory, whose artistic and technical director he became. In 1908-14 he was exclusively artistic director of the company. He had been commissioned by the Emperor in Kronberg for the first order to be carried out there. Commissioned by the Grand Ducal Court, he created the garden vases and a large grandfather clock as a gift for Kaiser Wilhelm. Received the Golden Medal at the 1904 World Fair in St. Louis. 1914/17 was teacher at the School of Applied Arts Karlsruhe. Appointed director of the Gemäldegalerie in Mannheim in 1917, he turned his attention more to tripod painting. Paintings in the Badische Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (the autumn of life), in the Kunsthalle Mannheim (children's picture) and in the Schloßmuseum ibenda (3 scenes of the Putten). Literature: Thieme Becker, volume XXXII (Stephens-Theodotos), page 276.