Vintage Zeller Ceramics. Jug, series Katrin

Ceramic jug, Zeller Keramik. 

Vintage red / orange ceramic Jug by the Zeller Ceramics Factory. Gorgeous design with hand grip and pouring spout. 

Marked at the bottom: Zell am Harmersbach, Katrin. 

• Height: 22.5 cm. 
• Diameter bottom: 12,7 cm. 

The Zeller Keramik factory is where real craftsmanship is combined with state of the art production. For over two hundred years these pieces have been produced in the Black Forest in southern Germany. The ceramics have become a household classic. 

Ceramics. The earliest ceramics made by humans were pottery objects (i.e. pots or vessels) or figurines made from clay, either by itself or mixed with other materials like silica, hardened, sintered, in fire. Later ceramics were glazed and fired to create smooth, colored surfaces, decreasing porosity through the use of glassy, amorphous ceramic coatings on top of the crystalline ceramic substrates. Ceramics now include domestic, industrial and building products, as well as a wide range of ceramic art. In the 20th century, new ceramic materials were developed for use in advanced ceramic engineering, such as in semiconductors.

The word "ceramic" comes from the Greek word κεραμικός (keramikos), "of pottery" or "for pottery", from κέραμος (keramos), "potter's clay, tile, pottery". The earliest known mention of the root "ceram-" is the Mycenaean Greek ke-ra-me-we, "workers of ceramics", written in Linear B syllabic script. The word "ceramic" may be used as an adjective to describe a material, product or process, or it may be used as a noun, either singular, or, more commonly, as the plural noun "ceramics".