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CARL GEBAUER,GERMANY,ART NOUVEAU,ART POTTERY VASE,1920s
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CARL GEBAUER,GERMANY,ART NOUVEAU,ART POTTERY VASE,1920s
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Up for auction is a Carl Gebauer of Germany, Kunsttopferel und Majolikafabrik (Art Pottery and Majolica Factory, 1892 to 1948), Art Nouveau, European Art Pottery, Three Twisted Handle Vase with a Hand Painted Floral Pattern in Mint Condition and Manufactured between 1919 and 1929. This museum quality German Art Pottery vase has hand painted, multi-colored flowers within cobalt blue lines alternating with a yellow sponge ware pattern. Bold and beautiful is also another way to describe this late Art Nouveau Period masterpiece. This vase has no chips or cracks of any kind and t is no glaze crazing or staining either. T is one very small factory flaw w one of the handles barely began to seperate from the main body of the vase during the firing. This is hardly noticeable and can be viewed in photo # 12. This vase is about 8 1/4 inches tall and the base is about 3 7/8 inches in diameter. The most bulbous point is just below the neck of the vase and it is about 5 1/2 inches in diameter and the handles take up the same amount of area also. The neck has a rim edge that measures about 3 3/8 inches across and the actual opening is around 2 1/2 inches in diameter. This is also a nice stout vase weighing in at 2 pounds, 4 ounces. The form of this vase is an asethetic triumph, but along with that goes the Art Nouveau style of the decorative pattern that definately hints at traditional and early German folk pottery heritage. If you are familiar with our own American slip glaze redwares of Pennsylvania and New England then you can visulize the influence more clearly. Our American redware was brought to these shores from Europe and not only by the Dutch. Almost all Scandinavian countries made these wares and so did the early German potters. Simply stated the redware folk pottery of Europe was spread out like it was You can find American slip glaze redware from Indiana, Ohio and upper New England even though it is mostly assocciated with Pennsylvania. Within this vase alone we have the hand painted slip glaze flowers, the sponged on pattern and an abundant amount of yellow which was a favorite color of both the European and later American redware folk pottery makers. The base glaze for this vase is what I describe as a bronze-brown glaze because It actually appears to be somewhat metalic or crystalline in nature, but brown ground glaze is probably the more official description terminology. The multi-colored flowers and the cobalt accent lines were hand painted with slip glaze or ceramic paint and then t is a yellow sponge ware pattern that seperates the flowers. You will also note that cobalt lines were painted between the handles and a rich brown glaze was applied t The nicest part of all this hand painted and applied art work is that it was glazed over with clear glaze and won't come off. T does appear to be a mark of perhaps numbers on the base of this vase which is obscured by the glaze, but their are also readable marks impressed into the unglazed rim of the base. One side is stamped Germany and on the other side t appears to be 3 numbers stamped into the rim, but only the 2 end numbers are clear enough to make out. T is a 6 as the first number, then a poorly stamped number that could be a 7 and following that is the number 5. I have learned that this is how Carl Gebauer marked his pieces during the period that this style of vase was being made between 1919 and 1929. Carl Gebauer started his first pottery in 1884 with a partner, but by 1892 he had his own factory. After World War 2 his pottery was on the communist side of Germany and the state took it over in 1948. I really wasn't able to learn much more about the pottery after the take over either. T are several famous Gebauers that were involved in German Art Pottery and this included Paul Gebauer who was Carl's brother. He had a good deal of success, but it was his son, Walter Gebauer that seems to claim the most fame. He was a brilliant potter and somehow he was able to get worldwide attention to his pottery despite being in East... 
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