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Porcelain glazed seladon-green, asymmetrical, curved stomach-form with narrow neck, lip and diagonal handle white.

Design: Fritz Heidenreich for „Kunstabteilung Rosenthal AG“ (transl.: compartment for art), 1950.
Implementation: Rosenthal AG, mod. no.: K2592, internal name: „Schwangere Luise“ (transl.: pregnant Luise), 1950 to 1968 in production.
Mark: Firmenstempel Unterglasur grün: Rosenthal Germany, Kunstabteilung Selb.
Measure: h. 6,8 inches (17,5 cm).

In the autumn 1950, the Rosenthal AG introduces the orchid-jug 2592 drafted by Fritz Heidenreich.
The vase attained extraordinary popularity under the name „Schwangere Luise“, taken over from the workers at Rosenthal. It caused an intensively led symmetry-asymmetry-discussion. Not only, that a new form-idea for ceramics was born, it placed also a signal of the liberation of the ideological ballast and led exactly in the economic miracle-time. The bulbous form helped to confirm the regained affluence and especially the popular “longing” seladon-green (named after the matt-green garment of the shepherd Seladon) attested, that the own apartment turned into a place of retreat.

The success of this vase and also this in the same year from Fritz Heidenreich drafted "vase with the seven faces" (see art.no. K50-80728) induced the Rosenthal AG in the following years to a strong expansion of the offer of asymmetrical objects.

^{State: perfect condition, no chips.}

Lit.: Cp. Makus 1998, p.114.