Posted 9 years ago
kivatinitz
(342 items)
These are four plates of Majolica that seems very old because they have rests of brown ashes under the glaze, so the kilns were not burning gas but wood. They have several imperfections like bubbles of the glaze in two of them. Although these details the design and colors are wonderful. I love majolica. They have several marks a number (827 most probably the pattern) half cake marked in quarters and a C, those with the pears have incised Sch and those with the apples a strange symbol. I could not find nothing about them. Can anyone helpme? Thanks.
Sorry, no help, but to me they are beautiful.
thanks dear Sklo, AGH, Vetraio, mikel, Robin, Ivone, Racer for the loves and comments, I know it is not easy this item....
Your right about the colors Silvia, so beautiful, and I love the raised vines, leaves and fruit!
What wonderful plates, kivatinitz. I get confused as to what is majolica, but these clearly are majolica as I understand it. Good luck tracking down the maker!
thanks Katherine
Silvia,I love these plates and couldn't stop thinking that I 've seen something similar somewhere.And I've found this set on a Polish auction site with the same markings.A description says it was made by Janos Kossuch Fayense in Kremnitz at the end of 19th century.I think the maker is acquired.
http://allegro.pl/majolika-komplet-na-ciastka-i5557547965.html
Perhaps I was too sure.I've found a plate almost like yours made by gebruder Schutz.It might explain the letters Sch,but the mark "half a cake"doesn't match.
Both the companies were located in Austro-Hungary.Maybe my previoous post is wrong?Look at this link
http://www.zeller.de/index.php?id=1002&backPID=1002&search_pid=1002&begin_at=1500
and this http://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/related/moravia/olomuczan-01/index.php
Thanks Ivonne. Yes the mark in your first link is identical and the only one after searching again. In the second the plate is very similar but the marks does not match as you say. I think that this later has been done with a mould bought to Janos Kossuch by Schutz. Searchig I found that Kossuch was mainly a glass fabrik and they convert all the kilns they have in Pest to gass in 1892. This one are not fire with gass. So it could be that some transformation in the companny, like selling the faiencerie or pottery to another partner or propietary had occur around that date. Thanks a lot again.
My pleasure :-)
I also thought they must have had something in common one way or another.