Roland Blaettler,  2019

In 1799, Euseb Affolter set up a small potter’s workshop near the so-called Schafgässlein lane (on today’s Studenstrasse road) above the village of Grenchen, which continued to be run by his descendants with a staff of two or three workers until 1913. In the early stages the workshop is believed to have produced stove tiles “with blue and white glazing”, later adding flower pots, milk jugs and cups (Strub 1949, 332).

The Kultur-Historisches Museum Grenchen [Grenchen Museum of Cultural History] (KHM 0058) has in its collection an ink stand dated 1879, which according to an entry in the museum inventory came from the Affolter workshop.

Translation Sandy Haemmerle

References:

Blaettler/Schnyder 2014
Roland Blaettler/Rudolf Schnyder, CERAMICA CH II: Solothurn (Nationales Inventar der Keramik in den öffentlichen Sammlungen der Schweiz, 1500-1950), Sulgen 2014,52

Strub 1949
Strub, Werner, Heimatbuch Grenchen. Die vergangenen Jahrhunderte bis in die Gegenwart dargestellt, Solothurn 1949.