BOTTLE-SHAPED STUDIO VASE BY MARGARETE SCHOTT

A lovely, tri-color, bottle-form vase with a very pale pink base, rising to a dark oxblood red torso, topped with bright cerulean blue on the neck and shoulders, by the distinguished West German ceramicist Margarete Schott. Schott is justly celebrated for her glaze applications, which cloak her understated forms in luminous, multi-layered colors. MARGARETE SCHOTT (1911–2004) was born in Berlin in 1911. She began a career as a ceramicist in her late '30s, in the western-central German state of Hesse, interning at Starkenburg Keramik in Heppenheim before commencing practical training in 1947 under artist Fritz Theodor Schröder at the technical school in Darmstadt (about 30 km south of Frankfurt). Her studies continued between 1951 and 1952 at the Crowan Pottery in Cornwall, England, in collaboration with its founder Harry C. Davis (1910–1986). From 1952 through 1961, Schott served as foreman of the ceramics department back at the technical school in Darmstadt, focusing particularly on g