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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;KikoBlueEyes, post: 3669767, member: 8363&quot;]I heard back about the Icelandic Ceramics, and I wanted to share what I learned.&nbsp; I also included the address of the person who kindly responded.</p><p>[USER=56]@moreotherstuff[/USER] - perhaps you can find out about your pieces from her:</p><p><br /></p><p>Þóra Sigurbjörnsdóttir &lt;<a href="mailto:thorasi@honnunarsafn.is">thorasi@honnunarsafn.is</a>&gt;</p><p>Wed 2/17/2021 1:07 AM</p><p>Þóra Sigurbjörnsdóttir</p><p>Sérfræðingur - safneign / Specialist- collection</p><p>Hönnunarsafn Íslands / Museum of Design and Applied Art, Iceland</p><p><br /></p><p>Tel: +354 512 1526 / +354 617 1526</p><p><br /></p><p><b>From:</b> Þóra Sigurbjörnsdóttir</p><p><b>Sent:</b> þriðjudagur, 16. febrúar 2021 17:10</p><p><b>To:</b> Hönnunarsafn Íslands &lt;<a href="mailto:honnunarsafn@honnunarsafn.is">honnunarsafn@honnunarsafn.is</a>&gt;</p><p><b>Subject:</b> RE: Glit Ceramics</p><p><br /></p><p>These are nice pieces especially the latter- the dish.</p><p><br /></p><p>I see that the artist that decorated it has marked it with her initials “Þ.H. ‘ 65”. The name of the artist is Thorbjorg Hoskuldsdottir and she worked at Old Glit from 1963- 1967. She is an artist and has worked as such for many years in Iceland.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can roughly recognize the periods by checking which kind of stamp or markings they use.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are actually more periods in the company&#039;s history, 4 to be exact. The first one: Old Glit, is from 1957 – 1968 where the art director of the company was the later sculptor Ragnar Kjartansson (the grandfather of now a well known video and performance artist by the same name).</p><p><br /></p><p>Ragnar used to emphasize that the artist that worked for him should be creative and decorate the items after their liking. The atmosphere at the company was like a social club for young and old artists in Iceland. The stamps from that period are Glit and Lava Glit as is on your dish. Ragnar designed a method to use lava in the clay so that the texture was very rough.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later after Ragnar quit to become a sculptor, the company got much bigger and that period is called Big Glit. They hired a german ceramicist to be art director and run the workshop. His name is Gerhard Schwartz and I think he is still alive. That period is from 1968 – about 1973. They marked still with the Glit stamp from earlier, but also like on the vase. I am not sure who SH is – it could be Sigurdur Hauksson- who went on to start his own company in ceramics and produced quite a lot. The fat lava ceramics came from this period in Glits history. Gerhard developed them and taught a lot of young ceramic artist how to throw and work the clay. He was a very good craftsman. But the company wanted to grow to fast and he quit after a few years.</p><p><br /></p><p>The two last periods of the company&#039;s history are not so interesting in terms of the production, but a man called Orri Vigfusson bought it and then they started to use a logo- stamp, like the one that appears on your vase. So it could be from that last period. From 1973 – 1994.</p><p><br /></p><p>From 1994 – 1996 a county in Iceland bought all the equipment and moved it to Snæfellsnes peninsula, where there were ideas to about how that should save the town. It did not.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this clarifys something for you. If I can help you further with other ceramics from Iceland I am happy to.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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