Alev Siesbye – zig-zag bowl

Alev Siesbye – bowl with a zigzag wax resist decoration in beige engobe with an feldspar high glow glaze, thrown, stoneware. About Alev Ebüzziya Siesbye was born in 1938 in Istanbul of Turkish parents. From 1956 to 1958 she studied sculpture at the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts, while also attending Füreya’s Ceramic Workshop. She spent two years as a production worker in the ceramic factories at Höhr-Grenzhausen, returning to Istanbul in 1960 to work in the Art Workshop of the Eczacibasi Ceramic Factories. In 1963 she moved to Copenhagen, where she worked first for the Royal Copenhagen and, since 1969, has had her own workshop. She has designed for both Rosenthal and Royal Copenhagen. She now lives and works in Paris.