Beige craquelure glazed porcelain Bauhaus vase designed by Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain (1896-1985) 1930 executed by KPM (Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur) Berlin.

Small porcelain vase bears KPM mark, with the Burg Giebichenstein mark which was only used on the earliest production.

Freanch born Marguerite Friedlaender  – English mother Rose Calman and German father Théodore who was silk merchant. At the start of World War I family moved to Germany where she completed secondary school. Studied sculpture at the Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Berlin, then started as a decorator in Rudolfstadt porcelain factory. Shortly after Walter Gropius proclamation about the founding of the Bauhaus school she decided to join it. Studied at Bauhaus alongside with Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky and worked closely with potter Max Krehan and Gerhard Marcks .  In 1926 after became the first woman to earn the Master Potter certification in Germany she was appointed head of the ceramics workshop at the Burg Giebichenstein School of Fine and Applied Art, also became associated with Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur. In 1933 moved to Putten, Netherlands, with her husband, non-Jewish German, where she with her husband opened a pottery shop called Het Kruikje (The Little Jug). In 1940 emigrated to New York.