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Ceramic West-Germany vase 517-30 by Scheurich

SKU: 943

Ceramic  West-Germany vase 517-30 by Scheurich

Superb vintage fat-lava vase from Scheurich in the color combination orange with brown from the 60s - 70s.

  • Model: 517
  • Height: 30 cm.
  • Diameter: 12.5 cm.

Scheurich was founded in 1928 by Alois Scheurich and his cousin Fridolin Greulich as a wholesaler in glass, porcelain and ceramics. In 1938, Scheurich settled in Kleinheubach (70 kilometers southeast of Frankfurt am Main). In 1948, one began with the manufacture of household ceramics. In 1954, Scheurich stopped the wholesale activities and focused entirely on self-manufacturing ceramics. Initially, they made bowls and ashtrays, but they soon switched to vases and flower pots. 

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". 


Some translations come from an automated system and may contain errors. 

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