Christian Ulbricht

Pyramid Maker Smoker

Name: Pyramid Maker Smoker
Brand: Alexander Taron
SKU: 35-282
Price: 261.0 USD
Availability: InStock

An old craftsman in his cap and spectacles, gingham kerchief knotted at the neck and blue apron tied on, holding up a finished Christmas pyramid with a red pencil still in hand. The pyramid is a working miniature of the spinning candle carousels the Erzgebirge is known for, complete with a toy train, little trees, and a star beneath its turning blades.

Material: Hand-turned and hand-painted wood with fabric details
To use: Lift the figure from its base, set a lit incense cone inside, and replace. Scented smoke drifts from the mouth.
Incense cones sold separately
Made in Germany

Dimensions

10.75" H x 5" W x 5" D

About Alexander Taron

The Ulbricht workshop began in 1928 in Seiffen, a village in Germany's Erzgebirge, when Otto Ulbricht opened a studio for fine woodwork and toys. His ancestors had been miners who turned to the lathe when the region's silver and tin ran out. Otto's designs won gold at the Paris World's Fair, but after the war the business was taken by the state and the family fled west, rebuilding on the Danube in Lauingen. His son Christian, born in Seiffen, took over in 1968, bought the original company back after reunification, and reopened the workshop in Seiffen in 1997.

Today Gunther Ulbricht runs the company with his children, Kathrin and Steffen, the fourth generation. The house is best known for its nutcrackers, and the smokers come from the same benches: miners, bakers, woodsmen, chimney sweeps, and Santas, each turned, assembled, and painted by hand. Every figure is hollow and holds a small incense cone, and the scented smoke drifts out through its mouth.

Pyramid Maker Smoker

$261.00