Terms and conditions of use
Covered punch bowl
(1926)
Medium
earthenware
Measurements
(a-b) 21.1 × 33.7 × 25.0 cm (overall)
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
The L. W. Thompson Collection Bequest, 2004
Gallery location
Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
Working at the Bauhaus school’s ceramic workshop in Dornburg, near Weimar, in the early 1920s, Otto Lindig made prototypes for industrial mass production. His bold, reductive forms reflected the simplicity of modernist functional tablewares that were suitable for slip casting rather than the more labour-intensive wheel throwing. Lindig became technical and then business director of the workshop before the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925. This large covered punch bowl was produced by Lindig during his time at the school and is the only known example of this form.
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Germany
Inscription
incised in base u.l.: (stylised design)
incised in base u.l.: OL (monogram) (underlined)
Accession Number
2004.781.a-b
Department
International Decorative Arts
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited