Bowl on foot, Poterie de la Chapelle, Carouge (Genève), Switzerland
Entwurf und Ausführung wohl 1930er Jahre - Designed and realised presumably in the 1930s
Bowl on foot, earthenware, yellow body, turquoise-coloured glaze, inside relief decoration in the form of a fine, circumferential band
The ceramist Marcel Noverraz from western Switzerland was a member of the Swiss Werkbund (member of L'Oeuvre in western Switzerland). He saw his ceramics as an expression of his artistic individuality, but was also influenced by modernism in the interwar period. See also the literature below.
Literature: Ball, Daniela U., Form ohne Ornament?, in: Schweizer Keramik im Spiegel der Kulturdebatten der Zwischenkriegszeit, in: Kunst + Architektur in der Schweiz, 56, S. 38-45, 2005
Blaettler, Roland und Rivollet, Karin, Noverraz - Menelika, potiers d'art genevois des années 1920 à 1960, Ville de Genève, Musées d'art et d'histoire, Katalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung 30.04.-20.10.2003, Genève, 2003
Rivollet, Karin: Marcel Noverraz: Itinéraire d'un potier in: Menelika - Noverraz, Ville de Genève, 5-14, 2003
