Dimensions: set includes: large platter (5 x 30 x 27.5 cm) and six plates (4 x 19 x 17.5 cm)
label of the manufacturer on the bottom
Condition
crack of two plates at the handles (about 2 cm)
Literature
- cf. Piotr Nowakowski, Fantastyczna ceramika użytkowa.
Wloclawek faience from the years 1953-65 from the collection of the Museum of the Kuyavian and Dobrinian Lands
Kujawska i Dobrzyńska in Włocławek, 2008, p. 37
- cf. Łukasz Gorczyca, Modernity in the shadow of blue flowers, "Art & Business", issue 10, 1999, p. 26 (il.).
Biography
From 1947 to 1950 studied at the Department of Sculpture and Interior Art of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Poznan in the Department of Ceramics led by Prof. R. Krzywc (graduated in 1950), studied at the Department of Ceramics and Glass of the State Higher School of Fine Arts in Wroclaw (graduated in 1953, working by R. Krzywc). All her professional life she was associated with the Faience Works in Wloclawek (1953-1983). Initially she was engaged in designing forms and decorations - author of, among others, dessert sets (1957 - patterns 183, 184 186). She managed the work of the painting department, prepared decoration patterns for reproduction. She developed an original decorative technique, the so-called "bark", consisting of relif ornamentation of faience vessels.
