Albert (1878) Maurer Sold at Auction Prices

United Brick Factories Thayngen, Suisse, large Vase XXL

Big vase. 1962. Ceramics. Glazed blue. H. 96 cm. Inscribed on the bottom: Maurer Albert Thayngen 1962 (scratched). The large-format vase was created in 1962 in the Tonwerke Thayngen, Switzerland. The company, founded in 1889, also had an art ceramic department since the 1920s, which was headed by Mario Mascarin from 1940 to 1945. Edouard Chapallaz completed a technical training here from 1939 to 1945 and began his ceramic artistic work with Mario Mascarin during this time. Philippe Lambercy also worked at Mascarin between 1940 and 1943 before opening his own workshop after various career stages. After war-related destruction, the company in Thayngen was rebuilt after 1945 and the art ceramics department was continued for a limited period by the employees Albert Maurer and Jacques Blanc. The slim, high, twisted vase is an exceptional piece from this phase.