GREEN DOROTHEA ROTH VOLCANO VASE FOR ROTH KERAMIK

A rare, 1970s, bottle-green “belly” vase from ROTH KERAMIK. A very crusty, metallic dove-gray zigzag of volcanic fat lava slips down to skirt the waist of this classic “UFO.” The base is marked with the form Nr. (110) and country of origin (W. GERMANY). ROTH KERAMIK was founded in the late 1960s, or very early 1970s, by husband-and-wife team Edmund and Dorothea Roth, in the Westerwald region of Germany, in the municipality of Ebernhahn. Situated roughly halfway between Cologne (Köln) and Frankfurt, Ebernhahn is a central hub for the German ceramics industry owing to its location within the small cluster of towns that make up the Kannenbäckerland (jug-baker’s land), home to Europe’s largest clay deposit. ROTH was quite small compared to the big names of West German art pottery, employing only about 20 people in its heyday, and its output was naturally tiny when measured against that of industry giants like Scheurich or Carstens. Dorothea Roth is believed to have been responsible for th