Small basket, France? c. 1870-1920 refined white earthenware, basket weave, applied decoration, light-blue glaze.

Flechtwerktechnik in CERAMICA CH

Andreas Heege, 2023

Creating vessels in basket weave requires special ceramics that are pliable and do not become brittle or crack when working with round strips of clay. Refined white earthenware clays appear to be particularly suitable. The resulting weaves can be fairly tight or quite loose.

Woven basket and moulded saucer in refined white earthenware with openwork decoration and moulded decoration in relief, Switzerland, Canton of Vaud, Nyon, made by the company Robillard & Cie, c. 1818-1832/33.

Baskets modelled on examples from Staffordshire but made in southern Germany or in Nyon are particularly common.

Vessels with surfaces that appear to have been woven but were made using moulds, do not belong in the category of basket weave but in the category of moulded decoration in relief.

Translation Sandy Haemmerle

German: Flechtwerktechnik

French: céramique tressée

References:

Blondel 2001
Nicole Blondel, Céramique, vocabulaire technique, Paris 2001, 122.