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Schreurs ceramic vase West-Germany 266-40

SKU: 1116

Schreurs ceramic vase West-Germany 266-40

Beautiful large floor vase from Scheurich, model 266. The color is beige / brown and has a ribbed shape. This beautifully shaped vase looks somewhat like a pagoda in terms of appearance. The vase is 40 cm high. The diameter at the top is 13 cm and at the widest point, it is 18 cm wide. It weighs around 2.8 kg.

  • Model: 266
  • Height: 40 cm.
  • Diameter: 13/18 cm.

Scheurich GmbH & Co. KG is a German company in Schneeberg (Lower Franconia) that produces ceramic vases and flower pots.

Scheurich was founded in 1928 by Alois Scheurich and his nephew 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, the manufacture of household ceramics began. In 1954 Scheurich stopped the wholesale activities and focused entirely on the self-manufacture of ceramics. Initially, they mainly made bowls and ashtrays, but they soon switched to vases and flowerpots.

Scheurich's hegemony began at the end of the sixties. Scheurich kept his prices low and combined with tasteful designs, this resulted in millions of euros. Scheurich's strategy was to provide the same models with different decorations each time. The designs were adapted to the changing taste of the audience twice a year.

Scheurich always uses white clay. The vases are signed with 'W.GERMANY' or 'WEST GERMANY' followed by three digits (indicating the model number), a dash and two digits (indicating the height of the vase). Around 1990, 'WEST GERMANY' will be changed to 'Made in GERMANY', both on the vase foot and on the sticker used. It is not possible to date the vases on the basis of numbering because numbers are often reused and have not been used in ascending order.

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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