Posted 12 years ago
ho2cultcha
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This large [10" high x 10" wide] planter is beautifully made and unsigned. it's so perfectly made that i always thought it was machine-made, but i found signs of it being hand-thrown on the inside bottom and hand-tooled around the outside bottom. it looks scandinavian, but it's unsigned, so i have no idea. but the quality of craftsmanship is A++. Any ideas who made it and when? also, what's the best stuff to use to get the hard-water stains off with? thanks.
Italian?
maybe vetraio50. why do you say that?
The incised decor looks Italian. The form is more a German look to my eye.
hmmm... interesting. i did think that the form looked German, but i am not familiar enough w/ Italian ceramic decoration to know that part. thanks Vetraio50.
Most of the German firms pieces are slip cast. This one looks hand potted. The foot looks well finished too. The decoration was added later again on the wheel. The horizontal lines are easier done there.
it's finished so beautifully!! i've never seen a thrown piece look so perfect. i wouldn't have believed it if i couldn't see the fingermarks myself - but only on the inside. the outside rim of the bottom is also cut w/ a tool on the wheel. there is a strange, large lip on the inside top too. i've never seen that before and it looks difficult to make.
IMHO the Italian potters are underrated. I have a light blue modernist one on CW that rings like a bell. The finish is amazing.
i think this might be a piece by UPPSALA-EKEBY from the 1950s. what do you think?
UE? Hmm. I've had a few pieces. Check out the bottoms of their pieces. Glazed all over. Not sure. Have you seen this site?
http://upsala-ekebysamlarna.blogspot.com.au/
thank you for the link. i'm still going thru all these swedish blogs - looking at pics. i'm fairly convinced that it is Uppsala-Ekeby, despite the lack of glaze on the bottom. i'm sure that there was a pan at the bottom of it - to collect water, but that was lost before i got it many years ago. that piece was probably glazed all over and had the markings under it. the repeated leaf pattern, incised glaze design, brown clay, very faint finger patterns on the inside, overall shape, thick matte glaze, - all points to Uppsala-Ekeby. don't you think?
i think maybe Hjördis Oldfors is the artist.