Dessert plate (or Side) Antique, Hand Painted, Weimar Germany,Secessionist,Collectable

Description

Rare survivor from an earlier era. Excellent to near mint condition. (See photos)

Antique secessionist style Weimar Porzellan Dessert plate. Vienna Secession inspired design. Floral bouquets with linear gilt ribbons and architecturally spaced around the inside edge of the plate.

Hand Painted, Collectable. (Wooden display plate holder not included.)

Displays well. Great decoration for a home built in the Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau or Art Deco style.

Matte gold painted edge, and alternating groupings of pink and green and blue and green bouquets spaced evenly around an inner gilt circle. Between each bouquet appear three gilt abstract, strongly architectural gold dentils. Architectonic angled shiny gold matte painted ribbon groupings flow downward from each bouquet with one central ribbon from each bouquet extending more deeply towards the centre of the plate.


Weimar Germany between 1897 and 1914.

Secessionist styling.

Probably produced during the ownership by Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G. from 1898 to 1918, likely between 1898 and 1909 at a time when Vienna Secession style was on the leading edge of international architectural and modern design in Europe, Great Britain and the United States. Vienna Secession style was carried into architecture, furniture, and home utilitarian wares as self consciously modern design through the Wiener Werkstätte (founded 1897).

One of the founders of the Wiener Werkstätte identified the firm's roots as located in the 19th century English Arts and Crafts movement, with Morris and Company its expression model.

_Our aim is to create an island of tranquility in our own country which, amid the joyful hum of arts and crafts, would be welcome to anyone who professes faith in Ruskin and Morris._ Joseph Hoffmann

In 1861, William Morris' original dictum upon starting Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co (also with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown, Philip Webb, and Edward Burne Jones) had been:

_Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful._
― William Morris

Morris and Company (in some form) was in production from 1861 through 1940. It's height of production was probably during the 1880s to 1890s with the commercial flourishing of a wider Arts and Crafts Movement in England.

The Weimar Porzellan was one of many decorative arts firms producing utilitarian but high design items for the home before WWI.

The Bauhaus School of Art first opened in Weimar Germany (1919) to train architects but also artists and artisans in creating beautiful and functional utilitarian objects for the home in the post war period. Its expression models were the Wiener Werkstätte and the English Arts and Crafts Movement.



Dimensions:

Diameter: 7 3/4 inches

Height: 1 inch


Porcelain manufacturers used a variety of symbols, letters or images to denote their
products. Called backstamps, these markings may be found on the bottom of a vase, on the back
of a plaque, or on the bottoms of utilitarian items such as bowls, plates, saucers or cups, etc.

Backstamp for this plate is identified as a backstamp used by the firm between 1848 and 1933 (In green: Weimar written in a ribbon across an escutcheon with Germany written below).

Christian Andreas Wilhelm Speck obtained a permission to build a porcelain factory in Blankenhain in 1790. Already in 1790 production had started. The factory swiftly gained a reputation and until the fire in 1817 production was constantly rising. Christian Speck died in 1830. The new owner was Gustav Vogt. His ownership of the factory lasted just ten years. The next owners were Sorge and Isidor Streithardt. In 1841 they were joined by Kästner. The Fasold family bought Porzellanfabrik Christian Speck in 1848. In 1856 the business was joined by Eichel. At that time, the factory was renamed Porzellanfabrik Fasold & Eichel. In 1898 the Blankenhain factory became part of Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G. After WWI in 1918 the factory was taken over by Carstens family. The name was changed into Blankenhainer Porzellanfabrik C.&E. Carstens. Next big change came in 1948 after WWII. The business was nationalized by East Germany. V.E.B. Weimar Porzellan produced under this name until 1990. The firm was privatized and since 1990 operates as Weimar Porzellan G.m.b.H.


Collection from CB1 1LH (centre Cambridge) or CB21 (Fulbourn).

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