TEXTURED BLUE AND WHITE HUTSCHENREUTHER VASE

A beautiful HUTSCHENREUTHER color-gradient cylinder vase with a highly textured surface and a glossy finish of dark blue fading to white. From the firm's 'Op-Art' period. Hutschenreuther is the family name of a German father and son who established competing porcelain manufactories in north-east Bavaria in the 19th century. C.M. HUTSCHENREUTHER AG was first organized as a porcelain decorating factory in the Bavarian town of Hohenberg an der Eger by its eponymous founder, Carl Magnus Hutschenreuther (1794–1845) in 1814. He decided to try his hand at making porcelain for himself when deposits of kaolin, the soft white clay essential in its production, were discovered locally near the River Eger. The district forester, a relative, Ernst Ludwig Reuß set aside space in Hohenberg Castle for Hutschenreuther to paint porcelain and study its manufacture. In 1816 Hutschenreuther married Reuß' daughter, Johanna Maria Barbara. After many years of petitioning the Bavarian authorities, a concession