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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 ...
Between 1902 and 1926 alone, the company had 32 different registered brands, of which 8 were only for the German market. [16] As a rule, the marks are applied in blue under the glaze. However, they also appear as overglaze marks in blue, iron red and gold. The first stamp was the T over a fish. The crossed S and P have been used since 1901.
Westerwald pottery, or Westerwald stoneware, is a distinctive type of salt glazed grey pottery from the Höhr-Grenzhausen and Ransbach-Baumbach area of Westerwaldkreis in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Typically, Westerwald pottery is decorated with cobalt blue painted designs, although some later examples are white.
A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in what is today western Germany. The characteristic decorative detail is a bearded face mask appearing on the ...
Sometimes in place of the company name, the pottery markings mentioned the SS: "DES - WIRTSCHAFTS - VERWALTUNGSHAUPTAMTES". [2] Ceramic artist, master potter and author Edmund de Waal describes the double-lightning insignia of the SS that marked the Allach products as a clever transposition of Germany's famed Meissen porcelain mark of two ...
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Pages in category "German pottery" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total
A map showing the confluence of the rivers Werra and Weser, Germany. The modern classification and naming of the Werra and Weser pottery types was made during the twentieth century, following a period of archaeological discovery between 1940 and the 1970s. They are named after two conjoined rivers situated midway between the Rhine and the Elbe.
Frankenthal porcelain group, c. 1760 Frankenthal porcelain marks Pieces from a dinner service of 1782 Platter with a paeony from the French Hannong factory making Strasbourg faience, c. 1765 The Frankenthal Porcelain Factory (German: Porzellanmanufaktur Frankenthal ) was one of the greatest porcelain manufacturers of Germany and operated in ...