
HANDMADE CHAMOTTE VASE BY HALIDAN KUTLU FOR SPARA KERAMIK
A fine example from the line of hand-built studio pottery created by Halidan Kutlu for SPARA KERAMIK in the early 1970s. Its heavy form is quite rustic in style and construction. Built with a red-orange chamotte clay, a black glaze has been applied to the blond undercoat and then wiped off before a second firing to leave all of the craters in the clay body black. The interior has been waterproofed with a glossy brown glaze, and the bottom decorated with a ring of mottled turquoise rectangles. Hand-marked on the base with the form and size numbers 612/25 and faintly impressed with the SPARA stamp (as is typical of the company's early studio work). SPARA KERAMIK was founded in 1947 by Ludwig Spang in the small town of Ransbach-Baumbach in the Kannenbäckerland in central Germany. (The Kannenbäckerland—the "jug-bakers' land"—is a centuries-old home to ceramics manufacture and the site of the largest clay deposit in Europe.) A relatively small manufacturer, its output—which included b