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An unusual watering jug with a flowing glaze of tan and milk-chocolate brown from SILBERDISTEL KERAMIK. Perfect for tending an …
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An unusual watering jug with a flowing glaze of tan and milk-chocolate brown from SILBERDISTEL KERAMIK. Perfect for tending an indoor garden of bonsais or succulents.
SILBERDISTEL KERAMIK (taking its name from a variety of silver thistle native to the Swiss-Austrian Alps) was founded in 1947, shortly after WWII, by Johann and Grete Breu in the town of Gevelsberg in the Ruhr district of western Germany. With its early artistic direction in the hands of the as-yet-unknown ceramicist Walter A. Heufelder (b. 1926), the company enjoyed a major boost in 1952 following its participation in a joint exhibition with Wormser Terra-Sigillata-Manufaktur at the Hannover Trade Fair. Indeed it had to hire a complement of 23 employees to handle the influx of business. That said, SILBERDISTEL would always remain a small studio business—even throughout the rapid expansion of Germany’s ceramics industry in the ’50s and ’60s.
SILBERDISTEL put out a high-quality line of artisanal vases, bowls, and jugs and became famous for its craftsman-like production. It gained a further reputation for the complexity of its glazes. Varieties of different colored glazes would be intermixed or sometimes fused one on top of the other. Glaze recipes were put together in time-consuming experiments—artisans would spend months perfecting a glaze until it was deemed reliable and could be repeated with perfect quality in subsequent firings. Early items were sold under the name Craquelé-Fayencen, which, as the name implies, was a fine crackle-glaze, offered through the middle of the ’50s. Beginning in 1957, several hand-painted décors were also employed. SILBERDISTEL is probably best known, however, for its stunning range of highly-textured volcanic and “fat lava” glazes, launched in the 1960s.
In 2005 the SILBERDISTEL brand was sold to Carstens and for a time was manufactured near Berlin in Rheinsberg. The factory (the former home of VEB Haldensleben) was bought out by Rheinsberg Keramik in 2020 and has since been permanently closed.
Identification: SILBERDISTEL used a light white clay exclusively. Items rarely bear a maker’s mark. Model numbers were incised by hand rather than impressed, embossed, or stamped by machine. Very rarely a stamp reading “WEST GERMANY” was added. Often items had (and still many are found today) small green felt circles attached to the base.
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- Dimensions
- 11ʺW × 6ʺD × 6.25ʺH
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- Germany
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Ceramic
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Excellent vintage condition. Minor wear consistent with age and use. Excellent vintage condition. Minor wear consistent with age and use. less
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