65.55 EUR
Design-well-reputed: Michael Andersen Bornholm Denmark.
Michael Andersen & Son, Roenne, Bornholm. Its history goes back to 1740, where the potter Rasmus Olsen founded a Pottery. Eventually acquired by Jens Michael Andersen in 1890 after a short period under the Stilholt family. The early production was earthenware and terracotta, but the Michael Andersen introduced a production og utensils and decorative items with high fired glazes.
Some of the ceramicist who contributed to the factory's success were among others: Daniel Andersen, Fritz Sanders, Ernst Weber, Elly Dobreff, Ida Swartz Lehmann, von Erlö, Hilde Dietrich, Hervig Schraml, Liselotte Majer, Max Riebe, Svend Nielsen, Vibeke Hansen og Marianne Starck. J.J. Bregnoe, Harald Isenstein, Carlo Rosberg, Sigward Bernadotte.
The company is now owned by ceramicist Solveig Ussing, who have reduced the manufactory to a well runned art pottery workshop.
Expressive stoneware bowl designed by Marianne Starck
The theme of the embossed motif is clearly of the little mermaid of Hans Christian Andersen
Michael Andersens ceramist stamp is on the base of the bowl (the 3 herrings inside a triangle) and it's numbered "6407/2"
The bowl is glazed fire-clay-brown.
Diameter: 25 cm = 9,8´´
Weight: 2,25 kg
A very beautiful and rare, heavy object in very good, barely used condition: no chips, no cracks and no crazing
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