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Ovoid-shaped vase, undecorated, with a widely flared, tall neck and low flared foot.
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| Brief description | German porcelain, Berlin, Marguerite Friedlander-Wildenhain, about 1929. |
| Physical description | Ovoid-shaped vase, undecorated, with a widely flared, tall neck and low flared foot. |
| Dimensions | - Height: 30.5cm
- Diameter: 14.7cm
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| Marks and inscriptions | - Sceptre (Printed in underglaze blue)
- Mark depicting a square surmounted by a triangle resting on two lines, one horiztonal, the other bent (Printed in black. Pieces with such marks indicate that the firing took place at Burg Giebichenstein (see Ceramics & Glass Registers))
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| Gallery label | - Pioneering women of the Bauhaus
At a time when women struggled to find a place in industry as designers, many female graduates from the Bauhaus art school became highly-regarded and commercially successful. Marianne Brandt was the first woman admitted into the Bauhaus metal workshop in 1924. Her ashtray represents a change of direction for the school, which became more geared towards design for industrial production at this time. The vase by Bauhaus graduate Marguerite Friedländer-Wildenhain, with its simple and undecorated form, was also ideally suited for commercial production.
Metal ashtray with flip lid
MT35, 1924
Designed by Marianne Brandt
Made at the Bauhaus metal workshop, Germany
Brass bowl and electroplated silver-nickel alloy lid
Museum no. M.73&A-1988
White porcelain vase
About 1929
Designed by Marguerite Friedländer-Wildenhain
Made at Burg Giebichenstein for the State Porcelain Manufactory, Germany Glazed porcelain
Museum no. C.126-1984
The object sits in the 'Automation and Labour' section of the Design 1900-Now gallery opened in June 2021.(2021)
- '19. Vase
Designed by Margaret Wildenhain Friedländer (German, born 1896)
Made for the State Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin, at the factory of Burg Giebichenstein, Germany, about 1929
Porcelain
C.126-1984
Margaret Friedländer studied at the Bauhaus ceramics workshop in Dornburg from 1919-1925, when hand-throwing and decoration were a priority. She went on to create models for industrial production, such as this vase, in simple, elegant, undecorated forms for the State Porcelain Factory.'
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