TALL SCHEURICH TEARDROP WITH FRUIT MOTIF Nr. 529/38

Technically a floor vase, this 1960s-era SCHEURICH KERAMIK teardrop could work equally well on a table or other raised surface. It measures 15 ¼ inches tall and is decorated with a pastel fruit motif—in shades of blue, yellow, and pink—outlined in black on a speckled white ground with a black interior. SCHEURICH KERAMIK had its origins in a joint venture launched in 1928 by Alois Scheurich (d. 1968) and his cousin Fridolin Greulich in the small town of Schneeberg near the Czech border in Saxony—wholesaling glass, porcelain, and ceramics. The business was moved to the market community of Kleinheubach in the northeast corner of Bavaria in 1938, and ten years later the partners began to produce household ceramics of their own, selling them under the name Scheurich & Greulich. The partnership was dissolved in 1954, and Alois founded Scheurich GmbH & Co. KG to continue production on his own. The new company employed Germany's first electrical tunnel kiln. The celebrated designer He