Cup and saucer c. 1924 - 1926

This "Cup and Saucer" was made at the Waechtersbach Earthenware Factory in Germany, but we don’t know when. I like to think of the artist's hand, carefully applying each blue square. I wonder if they enjoyed the repetition or longed to break the pattern. Maybe they hummed a little tune as they went along, their mind wandering, their hand steady. The blue reminds me of delftware. There is something so satisfying about the clean lines and simple geometry. Each piece, functional yet elegant, invites us to imagine a quiet morning, a shared meal, a moment of simple pleasure. The grid of blue squares, feels like a nod to modernism, a hint of Bauhaus perhaps, filtered through a folk sensibility. It makes me think about the ongoing conversation between art and craft, between the handmade and the mass-produced, all those binaries. It's a reminder that creativity thrives in unexpected places.