CARSTENS RECTANGULAR JAR VASE Nr. 7011/25

A bright and shiny rectangular jar vase with cheerful red glaze and and abstract geometrical design standing in relief from the vase in black, and sky blue, and touches of white.  It has a speckled brown and white interior, and is in unused vintage condition. CARSTENS TÖNNIESHOF was founded in 1946 by Ernst Carstens and his son Christian. Their family had had a long prior history of manufacturing ceramics and porcelain in Germany, but all of its businesses had collapsed by the end of WWII. Most of the CARSTENS factories wound up on East German soil when the country was divided and so were expropriated by the DDR. Father and son built the new Tönnieshof factory on a farm of that name in Fredelsloh in Lower Saxony, just west of the border with East Germany. Production of table ceramics began in 1947; the first known decorative pieces date from the early '50s. Ernst's wife Trude Carstens served as artistic director until her death in 1965. CARSTENS TÖNNIESHOFF was very successful for many