Marianne Starck (1931- ) is a German-born ceramist who was art director of the Danish pottery company Michael Andersen & Son from 1955 until the business was bought in 1993 by ceramist Solveig Ussing. While with Michael Andersen & Son, Starck produced beautiful studio pieces as well as designed pieces for mass production. Her work is some of the finest to have come out of the company.
On many of her pieces, she employed what is known as a Persia glaze. It is a very complicated and difficult to control technique introduced by Daniel Andersen in the early 1930s which produces a crackle finish.
Marianne Starck pieces can generally be identified by the incised initials "MS" and the Michael Andersen triangle herring logo, which was taken from the coat of arms of the Town of Roenne on the island of Bornholm where the factory was located.
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