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Flame Red Bowl

A work made of earthenware and glaze.

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  • A work made of earthenware and glaze.

Date:

1945

Artist:

Gertrud Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–1971)
Otto Natzler (American, born Austria, 1908–2007)
Los Angeles, California

About this artwork

Gertrud and Otto Natzler worked as a team for more than 30 years, forming a unified voice in their delicately thrown ceramics glazed in a riot of experimental colors and textures. Gertrud worked on a potter’s wheel to achieve her extremely thin vessels, while Otto developed the glaze formulas. They marketed their work as art objects and exhibited at world’s fairs, galleries, and museums, including an exhibition at the Art Institute in 1946, when this work entered the collection.

Status

On View, Gallery 265

Department

Arts of the Americas

Artist

Gertrud Natzler

Title

Flame Red Bowl

Place

Los Angeles (Object made in)

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1945

Medium

Earthenware and glaze

Inscriptions

Signed bottom, written in thick black ink: "NATZLER"; paper label: "# 6363 / Flame red bowl / $75.00".

Dimensions

9.9 × 20.3 × 5.1 cm (3 7/8 × 8 × 2 in.)

Credit Line

Atlan Ceramic Club Fund

Reference Number

1946.270

Extended information about this artwork

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