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Bay Keramik 77-25

Sometimes you just have to laugh out loud when dealing with Mid Century ceramics. Take this form by Germany’s Bay Keramik, for example… It makes no functional sense as a pitcher (it lacks a spout) nor as a vase (the neck is far too narrow for anything but the slimmest stems). It’s overall design is (to be kind) odd, with a bottom flaring out to a mismatched base, a neck out of proportion to its bottom, a handle with a 90 (!) degree bend and a smallish lip which would seem more at home on the bottom than the top. Oh, and it is covered in rather grandmotherly embossed flowers. Bay produced this form with numerous other glaze combinations including blue, green/white, brown and a glossy white, so it must have been popular. Not my cup of tea, exactly… but I have a feeling if you were German in the 60s, this was the meaning of Geborgenheit!