WENDELIN STAHL CRYSTALLINE BUD VASE

A beautiful, little, fat-bellied bud vase by master ceramicist Wendelin Stahl. This is one in a series of vases, all in different shapes, with a matt metallic anthracite glaze on top of a deep cobalt crystalline glaze. It is signed by the artist and numbered 202/11 (the form designation and the height in centimeters). WENDELIN STAHL (1922–2000) was an important German studio potter in the last century. He was born in the town of Höhr-Grenzhausen—long a center for the ceramic industry and home to a professional college for ceramics (hence the nickname Kannenbäckerstadt, roughly, “Jug-Baking Town”)—in southwest Germany, in the Westerwald. The grandson of an ointment jar potter, Stahl apprenticed in his hometown at the pottery workshop of Kunow & Drosein at the end of the ’30s. With his military service complete in 1945, he trained in Höhr-Grenzhausen for another six years at the studio of his elder brother, master potter Rudi Stahl (1918–1987). In 1952, along with his wife and longt