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Cup and saucer

MARKS, Margret (Grete) (1899-1990; née Margarete Heymann, later married names Loebenstein and Marks)
Haël-Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik

Cup and saucer, earthenware, the cup of inverted and truncated conical form with flared flattened conical foot and a handle formed from two solid conjoined discs of different sizes, the saucer with rounded foot ring, flat base and straight flared sides, covered with an orange-red uranium glaze.

This cup and saucer is from a tea set designed in 1930. Haël's striking orange-red uranium glaze was one of Grete Marks's most distinctive achievements and was highly praised by critics at the 1929 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Breslau. This striking conical design has become a modernist icon, making a clear break with historical precedent and avoiding all surface decoration.

Cup and saucer
Image: © Estate of Margarete Marks. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 39011

Creation/Production

MARKS, Margret (Grete)
Haël-Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik
Date: 1930 –

Acquisition

Gift, 23/1/2008
Given by Dr Frances Marks

Measurements

Height (cm): 5.6
diam (cm): 10.3
Width (cm): 13
diam (cm): 13.8
Height (cm): 1.6
Height (in): 2
diam (in): 4
Width (in): 5
diam (in): 5
Height (in): 5

Techniques

slip-cast
forming
Applied Art
press-moulded
forming
Applied Art
glazed
decoration
Applied Art

Material

earthenware

Location

Gallery 22A, North : Bay 07

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Priddwaith yr Almaen | German earthenware Priddwaith cyfandirol | Continental earthenware Priddwaith | Earthenware Cerameg | Ceramics Celf Gymhwysol | Applied Art Catalogue level CADP content Published online (Applied Art) Artist Benywaidd | Woman Artist
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