Vintage Willy Aebi Swiss Folk Art Pottery Tea Coffee Set Hasle Ruegsau 1960s

• Type: Swiss Folk Art Coffee & Tea Dipping Service Set

• Designer: Willy Aebi (Celebrated Swiss Master Studio Potter, 1930– )

• Brand: W. Aebi Töpferei Hasle-Rüegsau

• Manufacturer: Willy Aebi Pottery Workshop (Tschamerie Studio)

• Place of Origin: Hasle bei Burgdorf, Canton of Bern, Switzerland

• Style: Mid-Century Swiss Slipware / Traditional Langnau Folk Art / Alpine Cottage

• Colour: High-Gloss Chocolate Brown, Honey Ochre, Vibrant Emerald Green, Cobalt Blue, and Burnt Amber

• Design Era: Mid-Century Vintage (c. 1960s)

• Material: Heavy-Gauge Hand-Thrown Red Clay Terracotta / Slip-Glazed Majolica

• Set Includes: 1 x 21cm Rectangular Serving Tray, 1 x Large Handled Mug / Tankard, 4 x Small Handleless Egg Cups, 2 x Matching Floral Dotted Saucer Plates

• Features: 8-Piece Collector Ensemble, Intricate Traditional Swiss Slip-Trailed Figural Motifs, Multi-Coloured Contrast Cup Interiors, Original Metallic Studio Foil Label & Hand-Applied Yellow Slip Signature

• Condition: Vintage Condition with Characterful Rims (See Condition Report)

• Size and capacity: 21cm Length (Serving Tray)

• Dating: This rare regional set dates strictly to the 1960s (c. 1960s). The underside of the central pieces features the authentic, original silver foil studio label reading "W. Aebi Töpferei, Hasle Rüegsau" displaying the classic 1960s landline telephone format (034 / 61 13 65) alongside a beautiful, hand-applied yellow slip artisan signature.
• Historical Note: Based in the scenic Tschamerie region of Hasle near Burgdorf, the Aebi workshop was taken over and run by legendary ceramicist Willy Aebi from 1960 to 1993. Willy studied his trade at the elite School of Ceramics in Bern and became widely celebrated for preserving historic 18th and 19th-century Old Langnau slipware traditions. Rather than standard mass-produced kitchen lines, the hand-painted designs on this set celebrate classic Swiss Alpine folklore, depicting traditional Emmental country farming lifestyles, native draft animals, and rustic floral stippling patterns. Complete multi-piece service sets by Willy Aebi from his peak mid-century era are exceptionally scarce inside the UK and are heavily collected globally.

A spectacularly vibrant and intensely characterful find, this authentic 8-piece vintage Swiss studio art service ensemble acts as a wonderful visual anchor for any collectors' shelf or holiday spread. The core layout features a large, robust handled mug alongside a beautiful, compact 21cm wavy-rimmed rectangular host tray depicting a traditional Alpine cottage farming scene. Accompanying the host items are four heavy-gauge handleless egg cups, each individually glazed inside with alternating pop-art block tones—vibrant cobalt blue, rich amber, and deep forest green—resting upon two coordinated floral-ringed saucers.

Please note that there are some chips present along the delicate top rims of the egg cups, which is a common occurrence with authentic, hand-thrown redware of this age. These characterful chips expose the natural red earthenware clay beneath the chocolate slip and do not impact the structural display quality of the set. (Please closely examine the detailed macro photos in our gallery to review the condition of the egg cup rims before purchasing). The high-gloss glaze across the mug and 21cm tray remains remarkably bright with no heavy storage scuffing, milkiness, or significant surface crazing, and the terracotta bodies of the core serving pieces are beautifully preserved with no structural cracks or hairline fractures.

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• Packaging: Given the multi-piece configuration and fragile nature of hand-thrown pottery, every component is isolated with structural cardboard walls, wrapped extensively in multi-layered high-density bubble sheets, and floated inside an oversized double-walled shipping box to guarantee an entirely shockproof transit environment.
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