EVA FRITZ-LINDNER STUDIO POTTERY COMPOTE

A beautiful hand-thrown and hand-painted compote, cachepot, or vase created by well-known sculptor and potter Eva Fritz-Linder. It is in the form of two bowls, one larger, one smaller, attached at their bases to form a single receptacle. It can be inverted if desired.  The unique “griffin” décor wraps around both bowls. Though unmarked, it is undoubtedly the work of Fritz-Linder. EVA FRITZ-LINDNER (1933–2017) was a celebrated folk-art sculptor and ceramicist whose work is avidly pursued today by collectors worldwide. Born in Düsseldorf in 1933, she served as an apprentice at the Werkkunstschule—the applied arts training center in Wiesbaden—from 1949 through 1954, and as a student in sculptor Erich Kuhn’s (1890–1967) master class for the last two. At the age of 22, Fritz-Lindner was awarded the Grand Prix at a 1955 exhibition in Cannes: Five Millennia of German Ceramics. Later that year, she was hired as a master designer by the State Majolica Manufactory in Karlsruhe (MAJOLIKA KARLSRU