’50s MARZI & REMY FOLDED BOWL WITH WHITE ON BLUE CRAWL GLAZE

This late 1950s-era stoneware bowl features a folded rim and a beautiful ”crawl” glaze of white on light blue. It is decorated with thin black lines that divide the surface into diamond-shaped quadrants, highlighted with overlapping red and yellow dots. This décor is one of several types of crawl or “shrink” glaze  (Schrumpfglasur, in German) produced by MARZI & REMY from the late 1950s into the early 1960s. Its distinctive texture results when the glaze contracts and pulls apart during the firing process. While many such décors have names, this one’s is currently unknown. The clean geometry of the bowl’s folded form makes it a quintessential example of early mid-century design. MARZI & REMY was founded in 1879 by brothers-in-law Anton Marzi (d. 1924) and Simon Peter Remy (1835-1919) in the town of Höhr (today Höhr-Grenzhausen). Known as the potters’ city, Höhr is located in what is now central Germany—in the historic Kannenbäckerland, the “jug bakers’ land,” a centuries-old h