SAWA ‘TORINO’ DÉCOR “KLINKER” VASE Nr. 239/20 CONTACT The bottoms of exported vases

The bottoms of exported vases are often embossed with the word "FOREIGN" rather than "WEST GERMANY

whereby two layers of contrasting glaze are applied to a piece before firing and then a design is carefully carved (or "scratched") into the top surface to reveal the inner layer

Design Period – 1955-1964

It raised the profile of Italian ceramics in particular

SAWA ‘TORINO’ DÉCOR “KLINKER” VASE Nr. 239/20 CONTACT The bottoms of exported vasesA Klinker vase designed in the 1950s by Heinrich Maria Mller for SAWA KERAMIK. The dcor is called Torino. SAWA KERAMIK was the label under which Sawa Franz Schwaderlapp GmbH produced fine, artisanal, "klinker" style ceramics beginning in 1951. Franz Schwaderlapp had founded his company as an abrasives factory in Ransbach Baumbach in central western Germany in 1904, but he soon began producing unglazed flower containers at an associated pottery works.