Fat Lava Vase Europ Ceramics, West-Germany

Fat Lava Vase Europ Ceramics, West-Germany. 

Beautiful "Fat Lava" vase in brown with orange made by Europ Ceramics, with handle. Original sticker present. 

• Model: 414-16 
• Height: 16 cm. 
• Diameter: 10 cm. 

Fat Lava. 
The terms Fat Lava and West German Art Pottery are often used interchangeably, but technically have a different meaning. Fat Lava refers specifically to a type of thick glazes that gives the object a thick lava-like look. This type of glaze was commonly used in this period by German pottery manufacturers.

The term Fat Lava itself though is of a much more recent date. It has been suggested that the term Fat Lava first emerged with an exhibition curated by Dr. Graham Cooley during the King's Lynn Arts Festival in 2006, but the term was actually being used by sellers in Germany at least a decade earlier and may actually be due to a slightly faulty computer translation that came up with "fat" when the more accurate term would be "thick".