Spritzdekor

Amazing Glazes and objects from the 1920s & 30s

"Fabrikmarken ABC" / factories from ABC as Annaburg, Bunzlau, Carstens to Z as Zell /
earthenware, stoneware and porcelain.
Spritzdecor was produced mainly in Germany, up to 100 factories, exported to all European countries
and USA. Geometric and other non-objective pattern 1927-1933/35, flowers etc. 1932-1939/45. However there were factories in other European countries as well, like Austria, Belgium, France, Netherlands, Italy, Poland and Portugal. Factories in former Czechoslovakia as Bihl and Ditmar - Urbach should also be mentioned. They exported mostly to France, Belgium, Netherlands and USA.




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Chr. Carstens Georgenthal, L-R
- form # 306, Spritzdekor, white clay, 1931/32, coll. vhornbostel
- form name ?, Handpainted, red clay, 1932/33, coll. Kevin Graham
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Chr.Carstens Kom.Ges. Gräfenroda, Service "Toni", Decor #450, 1933

Steingutfabrik Colditz, Colditz, Saxony, cake plate, decor #4956, ca.1932

Steingutfabrik Annaburg, form #190 + #191, ca.1934


coll. Jan Kansy + vhornbostel (L-R)

Steingutfabrik Sörnewitz - Meissen, cake plate, form/size "A3", decor #1556, ca.1931

Bunzlau, about 1930


L-R
- Reinhold & Co., form #6, decor #377, 1931
- Reinhold & Co., form #300 / decor A.Seiffert

Schramberger Majolika - Manufaktur (SMF), 1931/32
bowl #3314, design Eva Zeisel, 1930, sprayed decor with mat glaze 1931/32
service # 3501, post Zeisel, designer unknown

Schramberger Majolika-Manufaktur (SMF),
- vase #3228 / design Eva Zeisel, 1929, handpainted decor "Futura" 1929/30
- tray #2310, pre Zeisel, designer unknown

C.A.Lehmann & Sohn, Kahla, porcelain, #503, sprayed decor on glaze, ca.1928/32

Carstens Uffrecht, Fayence dept., founded 1927 at the former factory of Bros.Hubbe, Neuhaldensleben,
designer Siegfried Moeller (1927/28 ?) and Hildegard Delius (1930/33 ?)

L-R vases 3220, 3230 and bowl 3367, red clay, designer unknown,
decor "Marokko" (Maroc), ca.1932/34

Georg Schmider, Vereinigte Zeller Keramische Fabriken, Zell am Hamersbach

modernist design teapots, designer unknown, ca.1930/32
#3086 with wine red glaze
#3101 with Spritzdekor 688

Several exhibitions, cf. catalog "Tendenzen der 20er Jahre", Berlin 1977 (decor 802, mis-dated 1925)
Bröhan Museum Berlin, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg

Steingutfabrik Wittenberg, at Wittenberg / Elbe

Porzellanfabrik Frierdich Kaestner, Oberhohndorf / Zwickau

vase #120, Spritzdekor, porcelain, 1930



vases and box #505, ca.1932, design Prof.Artur Hennig

From the Collection of Volker Hornbostel

Carstens Gräfenroda, 1st mat glaze decor series 1932/33, decor numbers about D.1100 (D.1012 - D.1127), cacao pitchers, vases, boxes, bowls,
cf. tea caddies "Japan", D.1108 and "Bombay", D.1107, attr. to Erich Krause, who left Gräfenroda 1932.
Rare pieces and very sought after.
Also mat turquoise series , D.1300 onwards. Same glazes at Georgenthal, early 1932.