Objects

A stoneware pot of cylindrical shape with one handle and a flange with slightly outward tilt. The inner and outer walls of the vessel (except for the bottom and the edge of the spout) are covered with brown glaze. The signature mark is engraved on the underside: "1 L / ŁOWICZ / N 1". The flange was reinforced by wire wrapping. The item was made at the stoneware factory in Łowicz, owned by the Wekstein family with Jewish roots. The factory operated between 1875 and 1939. Initially, production was supervised by specialists brought from Bunzlau (today's Bolesławiec), who trained local workers in the production of stoneware. In the interwar period, the Wekstein factory was one of the largest of its kind in Europe and periodically employed between 70 and 200 people. Its products were very successful in the Kingdom and abroad, and were awarded at exhibitions

(M. Wojtylak, Saga rodu Weksteinów [in:] "Łowiczanin. Kwartalnik Historyczny" 2015, no. 1 (48), pp. I–III). References: Wojtylak M., Saga rodu Weksteinów, [in:] "Łowiczanin, Kwartalnik Historyczny", 2015, No. 1 (48), pp. I-III.