Mid-Century Ceramic Candleholders by Marianne Suda brustalist circa 1920s-40s

circa 1920s-40s

which included a collection of several other Indonesian nutcrackers

a folk art carver from Fitzgerald

which is applied on the surface of a woven bamboo or wood object

The beautiful variegated turquoise/aqua colored glaze makes it feel like a painting

Mid-Century Ceramic Candleholders by Marianne Suda brustalist circa 1920s-40sThese geometrically patterned candleholders, c. mid 1960s, are a great example of the work of Marianne Suda, a ceramic artist born in Vienna, Austria in 1928, who Immigrated to Canada in 1954 and was based in Quebec. Suda was strongly influenced by both Danish Modern pottery and native Canadian art influences which I think wonderfully merge in these earthy and strikingly graphic hand formed candleholders. They are made of dark brown clay with cream,