The Scheurich company was established in Kleinbeubach in 1954 by Alois Scheurich, who had formerly been a parter in Scheurich and Greulich (S&G), a distributer of ceramic and glass items.
Although Scheurich was a latecomer to the ceramic business in Germany, from the 1950s through the 1980s they produced and exported more ceramics than any other company in that country. Some of their products were specifically made for foreign markets and marked as such.
As a result of high production, there is a broad range of quality in Scheurich pieces, but the company experimented with glazes more than any of the other ceramic factories of the time, and some of their results were extraordinary. Some forms were produced in over 200 glazes, and some glazes were used on a large number of forms.
As a general rule, Scheurich forms tend to be simpler than some of the other companies, but to some collectors, that simplicity is desirable. Nevertheless, Scheurich offered the widest range of forms and glazes of any other company. Heinz Siery designed many of the Scheurich forms.
The clay used by Scheurich was white or beige, and the bottom ring ranges from tidy to ragged, so those features do not provide definitive identification. Likewise, there is no easily identifiable marking. Most often, the form and height, as well as W. Germany, appears in a circle inside the clay ring. In the highly textured "lava" styles, the marking may be obliterated by the glaze. Pieces in the 70s and 80s, when some of the company's best glazes were created, sometimes displayed the company name, while pieces in the 90s sometimes had a three-ring logo. The company also used paper stickers.
Most of my West German pottery is Scheurich. You can see it on
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Love the first one there Dana!!
ReplyDeleteIsn't it fabulous? I've never seen one like it before.
DeleteI love the shape of the second one. I think that's my favourite shape. I have a few Scheurichs, but there's one I really can't stand. It's as if someone has painted it. I'm not sure why I even bought it (though it is the shape of the second vase so maybe that's why). I love the heavily glazed ones.
ReplyDeleteI love that shape too. I have one like that in green, blue and brown. I also love the fourth and sixth shape, which I also have. I gravitate to the ones that are moderately glazed or have a matte glaze.
DeleteWere I not completely eat up with "McCoy", I could very easily see myself spending a fortune on West German pottery. Especially the red and turquoise pieces! That turquoise and black number is just to great!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many lovely McCoy pieces. Both my grandmothers had lots of it when I was a kid, and I wonder what happened to it. Almost all the WG pottery I have is Scheurich. I think we sometimes find a niche--something that we really, really love--and stick to it.
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