Pattern: Many Loops and Daisy

Maker: Brockwitz

Colour(s): 

Marigold 

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Brockwitz Carnival is universally admired for its all round high quality, its magnificent designs and its consistently impressive iridescence. Brockwitz also has an attribute that is common to several other European manufacturers - the ability to surprise. Just when we start to think we know most of the Carnival items made by the company, discoveries are made that feel as exciting as Christmas.

This splendid marigold bowl - now named Many Loops and Daisy - was found in 2006 by John and Frances Hodgson. It's an intricate, intaglio geometric with rich marigold iridescence, but it's not one that most people are familiar with. John's subsequent discovery that it was illustrated in a Brockwitz 1915 Musterbuch (catalogue) was the "icing on the cake". Our article on the Brockwitz Revelation revealed the early production of Brockwitz Carnival -and now we can add another pattern that was surely made at this time. We have not seen this pattern illustrated in any other Brockwitz catalogues - only the 1915 one - so it undoubtedly was one of the first Carnival designs they produced. We have seen a couple of examples of this item in previous years, in a slightly different shape: cupped in like a rose bowl and mounted on a metal base.

Brockwitz 1915 catalogue extract is courtesy Dieter Neumann and Siegmar Gieselberger
Photo of Many Loops and Daisy bowl, Copyright J&F Hodgson