Description

Terracotta vase from Goldscheider-Wein, signed by: “Chere” Representing a decoration of sea foam and bird revealing a naked woman.

XXème
H : 86 x L : 46 cm

Friedrich Goldscheider founded in Vienna circa 1885 the Goldscheider factory and the Majolica factory. It has become one of the most influential ceramic pottery, earthenware and bronze ware manufactures in Austria with subsidiaries in Paris, Leipzig and Florence. For more than half a century, Goldscheider has created masterpieces of historical renewal, Art Nouveau (Jugendstil) and Art Deco. Famous artists such as Josef Lorenzl, Stefan Dakon, Ida Meisinger and the two most famous Austrian ceramic artists, Michael Powolny and Vally Wieselthier worked for Goldscheider. Many of the artists who worked for Goldscheider also worked for other Viennese studios, such as Augarten, Keramos or the German brands Rosenthal and Meissen. The Goldscheider family emigrated in 1938 to the United Kingdom and the United States. Walter Goldscheider inaugurates a new factory in Trenton, New Jersey and returns to Vienna in 1950. Marcel Goldscheider travels to Stoke-on-Trent to produce figurative pottery for Myott and opens his own studio in the 1950s in Hanley. The two brothers died in the early 1960s. More than 10,000 different models have been created over a period of three generations. Since the beginning, many of them have won first prizes and gold medals at countless fairs, exhibitions and fairs. Goldscheider figures are now highly sought after by collectors around the world and are reaching amazing auction prices such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Dorotheum and eBay.