Large, unique planter with mascarons. Horst Skorupa (attributed). Probably 1970s. Horst Georg Skorupa1941 Wroclaw - 2004 Schaddel near Leipzig Clay, reddish brown body, incised and painted in engobe and polychrome onglaze colours. Cuboidal wall over a square cross-section. The lower outer wall coloured in dark green engobe and decorated with incised foliage, the depths highlighted with rubbed white and dark brown pigments. The upper wall of the vessel is left in the reddish-brown body. In the centre of the outer surfaces one and two plastic mascarons in an oval. The upper opening is accentuated by a frieze and plastic leaf and branch decoration in green and brown onglaze colour on two opposite corners. The inner surfaces completely painted in white onglaze colour. Unsigned. Dimensions: H. 61 cm. Horst Georg Skorupa 1941 Breslau - 2004 Schaddel bei Leipzig German ceramist. 1961-63 Study of painting at the art academy in Berlin-Weißensee. From 1973 member of the VBK. 1974 co-founder of the artists' college "Schaddelmühle", until 1978 chairman of the college. 1975 Participation in the 1st International Artists' Symposium of the GDR. 1976 Prize in the exhibition "Young Artists of the GDR". 1981/82 Working stay in the studio of the State Porcelain Manufactory Meissen. From 1991 runs a joint studio with Martin Gruner in Schaddel. 1992 End of his work due to health problems. Some of Skorupa's works are in the Museum of Applied Art in Gera.