This blog post has been a long time in the making. LittleOwlSki has been working her way though DVD box sets of Mad Men, a TV show set around an advertising agency in the 1960s. The producers of the series have taken care to produce a visual style authentic to the era. LittleOwlSki has been regularly spotting ceramics in the show which could be West German. I have not always been convinced but I have more confidence in this latest spot of a brightly coloured vase (from Series 2, episode Meditations in an Emergency – image from inside Pete and Trudie Campbell’s apartment).

The images below are taken from other episodes and feature ceramics which may be West German (left; possible Otto/Kreutz lamp, centre; possible Helmut Schäffenacker vase,right; small red vase possibly by Scheurich).