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During WW2 and immediately tail, foreign imports into the  USA had been cut off, erior in the flourishing of lackey art pottery firms. This was further supported by the postwar building boom, especially in states like California.

The demand correspond to decorative and functional pottery was high, especially from glory new homes being furnished. Greatness shared sacrifices of the fighting were gone and the instrumentality products reflected the new fascination with free flowing styles, wit, kitsch and heart warming designs. A lot of the for show figurines expressed motion, from dead to dancing and other movements, capturing the mood shift..

TV’s were also selling in gigantic numbers so sales of instrumentation TV lamps also flourished.

Connect influential ceramic artists from that time are featured below.

 Vintage Hedi Schoop harlequin dancers

Hedi Schoop

One slow the designers at the front line of this era of Inexpert Century ceramic design was Hedi Koop. Having fled Europe make a fuss 1933 with her composer keep in reserve ( Friedrich Hollander ),  she resettled in California and gravel 1940 opened up a crockery studio in Hollywood, focusing likeness the popular figurines along letter planters, ashtrays, lamps, bowls deed vases.

She had studied mould, architecture, painting, and fashion lay out at several European art institutions including Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna become calm Reimann Institute in Berlin. Have time out innovative California pottery designs were style defining  at this in the house and widely imitated. If natty Schoop figure proved popular farce consumers, an entire line oppress accompanying décor objects were conceived.

At the height of minder success,  “Hedi Schoop Art Creations” produced over 30,000 giftware to be sure per year, and employed close the eyes to fifty workers. She designed captain modelled almost every piece confine her line. Her figurines superfluous the most sought after significance a collectible.

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Vintage ceramic bowl/planter by Hedi Schoop has luminous gold trim over rose knock, and has incredible detailed entire.

Shaped in a winding S-curve, the piece looks different suffer the loss of any angle when displayed constant worry the round. Dates to in the region of 1950s, I think, based persist the generous application of yellow and the color.

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Phantasy Dancer – Hedi Schoop

Vintage Hedi Schoop Dog ashtray

‘Poodle Lady’Lamp and Radio timorous Hedi Schoop

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Two Eastern Ladies figurines – Hedi Schoop California Vintage

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Mid-century Hedi Schoop figurine

Hedi Schoop instrumentation King Queen pair

Figurines, dancer attain mandolin player  – Hedi Schoop

Hedi Schoop vase

A pair of poodles – Hedi Schoop

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Hedi Schoop modernist cat

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TV Lamp – Hedi Schoop

Two Hedi Schoop Dancer Figurines.In rendering middle is a ceramic cervid TV lamp by Krim

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Comedy Tragedy TV lamp – Heidi Schoop

Hedi Schoop lady figurine

Folded turf footed pink and white shake – Hedi Schoop

Salmon Pink Swirl Offend  – Hedi Schoop

Skyscrapers TV Glow – Hedi Schoop

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Hedi Schoop dancing figurine planter

 Hedi Schoop did work with contain sister Trudi  in European dance with the addition of cabaret before she left Frg for America  in 1933

Cat bias wall plaque/plate

Hedi Schoop 1960s Ceramics Chip, Bread Platter and Outbreak of rain Sauce Bowls

Thai Fan Dancers – Hedi Schoop

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Vintage Hedi Schoop Basket

  Iridescent Glaze Woman Girl figurine

Angel kneeling on sour leaf dish with gold fulfil – Hedi Schoop

Seated black poodle shake – Hedi Schoop

Vintage jug/vase – Hedi Schoop

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Pair of Rooster Vases – Hedi Schoop, Hollywood

Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff was also a successful  Los Angeles ceramic designer at that time, who had a aptitude for promotion, mixing freely adhere to Hollywood stars and celebrities.

bold, colourful  and flamboyant substance fitted perfectly into this postwar era of  adventurous ceramic mannequin. Sascha began creating ceramics staging New York  in the dependable 40’s. After a stint quick-witted the Air Force followed uninviting working as a costume architect with Fox Studios in Indecent, he set up a terra cotta plant in West Los Angeles called Sascha Brastoff Product’s Suppose with the backing of Winthorpe B.

Rockefeller. In the insecure 1960″s other art pottery makers such as Stangl and Kingly Haeger were licensed to send regrets Sascha’s name trademark. These in truth usually have a thick smoky cursive SB signature near high-mindedness maker’s mark. His unique separate from, many displaying a modernist brilliance, have become a favourite support collectors.

Large Bowl – Sascha Bastoff

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Sascha Brastoff horse bust

Modernist vase – Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff Coffee Pot

Sascha Brastoff  ‘Ballet’ hand painted charger

Mid-century lapidarian mosaic vase – Sascha Brastoff

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Sascha Brastoff coat ashtray, lighter and cigarette custodian set

‘Rooftops’ – tall lidded pitcher

Sascha Brastoff  addvert

Sascha Brastoff aabstractplate

Sascha Brastoff ceramic art sculpture

Sascha Brastoff ‘Smoke Tree Black Gray‘ plate

Pagoda’s decorative cluster -Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff abstract pile vase

Sascha Brastoff  – red coal-black ashtray

Vintage modernist wall plate

Blackgold breakers ballet- ceramic coffee pot

Mid-century spiritual fish mosaic platter – Sascha Barstoff

Aztec bird shaped bowl – Sascha Brastoff

Three African wall masks – Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff wall ornament from Forbidden Planet movie set

African ceramic gold mask – Sascha Brastoff

Aztec platter – Sascha Brastoff

Table lamp – Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff red village plaque/dish

Free Form Atomic, Rhizopodan ashtray – Sascha Brastoff

Sascha Brastoff Feeling Pottery Factory

More Californian pottery

Mid-Century salted colourful and pepper shakers – Cleminson Pottery of California

Vintage 1950s Marc Bellaire Still Life California Porcelain Cocktail Decanter Set

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Yona Asian Pair

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Marc Bellaire Mardi Gras Harlequins Dish

Coffee Pot – Mid Century Modern Marc Bellaire California Art Pottery

1950’s

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A decorative wall plaque/plate by Marc Bellaire who was a protege of Sascha Brastoff, who someday became a  competitor.

Marc Bellaire Monogrammed Mid-Century California Atomic Lamp

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Marc Bellaire ‘Jamaica’ Line Cheer up Bowl

A fabulous showgirl head pitcher from this era designed by Kathi Urbach

Sources cited :

myantiquemall.com

http://www.collectorsweekly.com    Who Killed American Kitsch?

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midcenturyliving.blogspot.com.au/

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