EVA FRITZ-LINDNER STUDIO POTTERY COMPOTE

A beautiful hand thrown and hand painted compote, cachepot, or vase created by well-known sculptor and potter Eva Fritz- Linder.  It is in the form of two bowls, one larger, one smaller,  attached at their bases to form a single receptacle it can be inverted if desired.  The unique 'griffin' decor wraps around both bowls.  Though unmarked, it is undoubtedly the work of Fritz-Linder. EVA FRITZ-LINDNER was a celebrated folk-art sculptor and ceramicist whose work is avidly pursued today by worldwide collectors.  Born in Düsseldorf in 1933, she served as an apprentice at the Werkkunstschule—the applied arts training center—in Wiesbaden in Hesse for five years, from 1949 through 1954, and was a master student in Erich Kuhn's sculpture class for the final two.  At the age of 22 she was awarded the Grand Prix at a 1955 exhibition in Cannes:  Five Millennia of German Ceramics.  Soon after Fritz-Lindner was hired as a master designer by the State Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe where she was