Cup and saucer
MARKS, Margret (Grete)
Haël-Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik
Image: © Estate of Margarete Marks. All Rights Reserved. DACS 2025/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
This cup and saucer is from a tea set designed in 1930. Haël's striking orange-red uranium glaze was one of Grete Marks's most distinctive achievements and was highly praised by critics at the 1929 Deutscher Werkbund exhibition in Breslau. This striking conical design has become a modernist icon, making a clear break with historical precedent and avoiding all surface decoration.
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Details
Collection
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Item Number
NMW A 39011
Creation/Production
MARKS, Margret (Grete)
Haël-Werkstätten für künstlerische Keramik
Date: 1930
Acquisition
Gift, 23/1/2008
Given by Dr Frances Marks
Techniques
Slip-cast
Forming
Applied Art
Press-moulded
Forming
Applied Art
Glazed
Decoration
Applied Art
Material
Earthenware
Location
on display
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