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Pottery, Czech Republic Pottery. It is suggested the late Rössen culture may be ancestral to the Neolithic cultures of Britain and Ireland (a group of cultures previously known as Windmill Hill culture), but there is no great similarity in the form of houses or pottery. According to alternative theories, the British Neolithic culture(s) came ...
The Allach maker's mark incorporated stylized SS runes.. 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 ca
West German Art Pottery is essentially a term describing the time period of 1949–1990 and became the early way to describe the pottery because the country of origin, with numbers denoting the shape and size, was often the only "mark" on the base. Even though company names are now better known, and many items are attributed to specific makers ...
The Royal Copenhagen manufactory's operations began in a converted post office in 1775. 1777: Graf von Henneberg Porcelain, Ilmenau: Ilmenau: Germany: Thuringia 1777: Hollóháza Porcelain Manufactory: Hollohaza: Hungary: Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County: 1783: Porcelain Manufacture Rauenstein: Rauenstein: Germany: Thuringia 1790: Weimar Porcelain ...
The factory had its origins in an official request made 8 September 1760 by the porcelain maker Georg Heinrich Macheleid (1723 -1801). Macheleid had long worked in the glass manufactory at Glücksthal and had gained the arcana of porcelain-making by his own researches, apparently independent of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger, the ceramists at Meissen.
The founder of the porcelain factory, Siegmund Paul Meyer, moved from Nuremberg to Bayreuth in 1890 to work as an accountant for the pottery and oven manufacturer Seiler. . Six years later he bought the well-running Georg Bauer porcelain and glass shop at Kulmbacher Straße [] 20 and set up his own business with a porcelain painting and retail store.
It told the story of Lew Reese, a businessman who had turned an abandoned pottery into a thriving business, only to suffer a setback in 1947. Hooked on History: CBS TV series dramatized 1947 Scio ...
In 1967, Rosenthal built the so-called "Glassmaker's Cathedral," a factory for the Thomas-Glassworks in Amberg. The Thomas-Glassworks was renamed the Amberg crystal glass factory. In 1997, Rosenthal AG was 90% owned by the British-Irish Waterford Wedgwood Group. Rosenthal was the market leader for high-quality porcelain and glassware in Germany.