Ditmar Urbach ceramic vase • 1960 • Czechoslovakia

Beautiful vase from the historic Ditmar Urbach factory, made in the former Czechoslovakia in the 1960s. Vase with a structured design and glazed in dark green and brown with a high-gloss glaze. In very good condition despite the presence of a hairline visible in the close-up photo. This is a manufacturing defect and not a crack. Marked on the underside. Dimensions: 22 cm high • 10 cm wide • notch at the top: 4 cm ••• A little history: The Ditmar-Urbach AG porcelain works operated under various names in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia (later Trnovany, Czechoslovakia), from 1882 to 1938. The pottery started as the Urbach brothers. In 1919, it merged with a factory belonging to the heirs of Rudolf Ditmar and became Ditmar-Urbach. In 1938, the Nazis took over the factory from its Jewish owners and incorporated it into Ostmark-Ceramic. It was nationalized after the end of the war in 1945. In 1947, Kurt Lichtenstern, heir to Richard Lichtenstern, the former owner of Ditmar Urbach, who had emigrated to the United States and changed his name to Conrad H. Lester, took over the company. The final change came in 1967, when the company was acquired by Keramik Holding Laufen. Careful shipping or hand delivery in Paris. Please contact me for shipments abroad.