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Rosenthal factory mark around 1900 Rosenthal-Weihnachtsteller 1921, designed by Jupp Wiertz Fettling cups at the Selb factory in 1956. Rosenthal GmbH is a German manufacturer of porcelain products and other household goods. The original firm was founded in 1879 in Selb, Bavaria. Since 2009, Rosenthal has been owned by the Italian company ...
Originating in Germany, the hand-painted figurines are sought after by figurine enthusiasts all over the world, with some sets selling for around $2,000. Their nostalgic appeal and artistry make ...
Year Description Site / location Remark 1710: Meissen porcelain: Meissen, Saxonia: 1st porcelain manufacturing company in Europe 1746: Höchst Porzellanmanufaktur
Porcelain Sleeping Faune figurine modeled by Albert Caasmann, produced by Rosenthal AG, c. 1920s.. Albert Caasmann was born on 2 June 1886 in Berlin, Germany.From 1909 to 1919, he worked as a freelancer for the Berlin toy company Lineol, founded by Oskar Wiederholz in 1906.
Books and price guides have been published about Hummel figurines. [15] Some of these works supported the secondary market interest of collector speculators; The Official M.I. Hummel Price Guide: Figurines and Plates, 2nd Edition, by Heidi Ann Von Recklinghausen is a current price guide, published in 2013.
Selb is well known for its porcelain manufacture, and is the home of the Rosenthal factory, founded in 1879 by Philipp Rosenthal as a family business. In the 1960s the town was the location for an unrealized town development plan prepared by Walter Gropius shortly before his death. [ 3 ]
Allach porcelain (pronounced 'alak') a.k.a. Porzellan Manufaktur Allach was produced in Germany between 1935 and 1945. After its first year of operation, the enterprise was run by the SS with forced labor provided by the Dachau concentration camp. The emphasis was on decorative ceramics —objets d'art for the Nazi regime. [1]
Rosenthal expanded the company through new start-ups and acquisitions and converted it into Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG in 1897. In 1916, Rosenthal introduced the eight- and twelve-sided dodecagon porcelain dinnerware set "Maria," which Rosenthal named after his second wife, Maria Franck, who was the daughter of the royal lawyer Josef Frank. She ...