RARE CLÄRE ZANGE TEA CADDY FOR KRÖSSELBACH

A rare ceramic tea caddy designed in the 1950s by Cläre Zange for KRÖSSELBACH. KERAMIKWERKSTATT KRÖSSELBACH was established in 1946, in the southwest of Germany, downstream of the small town of Eberbach on the east bank of the Neckar river, by mother and daughter Carla and Gisela Schließler, on the site of what had once been the family's summer home, in cooperation with master potter Michael Fischler. Gisela (aka Giselle, b. 1924), whose formal sculptural training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe was cut short in 1942 with the privations of WWII, had been experimenting with clay in a small shed on the property. When Fischler heard of a pottery wheel that Gisela had received as a gift, he applied with the family for work as a potter. (Fischler was a refugee from Silesia, one of millions of ethnic Germans who fled or were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries during the late stages of WWII and the post-war period.) Carla arranged for a small workshop to b