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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Sugar Bowl and Cover

1923 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Semi-spherical bowl with flattened top and hole for a spoon. The lid is flat with a flat knop, tin glazed to give a rusty brown and white colour.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Bowl
  • Cover
Materials and techniques
High-fired earthenware with a tin glaze, thrown, cast and assembled
Brief description
Sugar bowl and cover, hand-thrown, cast and assembled, tin glazed, Designed and made by theodor Bogler at the Dornburger Töpfer Werstätt, 1923.
Physical description
Semi-spherical bowl with flattened top and hole for a spoon. The lid is flat with a flat knop, tin glazed to give a rusty brown and white colour.
Dimensions
  • With lid height: 7.5cm
  • Diameter: 10.0cm
Marks and inscriptions
'TB' in monogram, incised
Object history
Theodor Bogler wa a student at the Bauhaus pottery workshop at Dornburg, near Weimar, from 1920. He became business director in 1923.

These two pieces, teapot (C.90:1,2-1994) and sugar bowl (C.1:1,2-1995), were bought from Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne. They had been acquired by Fiedler from an auction at Ketterer Kunst, Munich. Both items had formerly been in the personal possession of Theodor Bogler. According to the auction house, Bogler died as a monk in Maria Laach Abbey, leaving various ceramics, drawings, prints, etc. to the son of a very close friend, a painter, who had been using the pieces unconcernedly since he had acquired them, unaware of their historical importance or value.
Production
See also C.90:1,2-1994
Associated object
Bibliographic references
  • Christopher Wilk (ed.). Modernism 1914-1939: designing a new world. London: V&A Publications, 2006. cat. no. 18, p. 53.
  • V&A Ceramics and Glass Collection Object Information File
  • Jutta Römer, Daniela Sannwald and Klaus Weber (eds.). Keramik und Bauhaus. Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, 1989.
Collection
Accession number
C.1:1,2-1995

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Record createdFebruary 16, 2006
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