Date Marks Ceramics

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Date marks ceramics. Some of the oldest potteries signed their items by including date ciphers and other symbols indicating designer model quality and other internal manufacturing references. Some show a date of 1755 which refers to earlier bonn pottery manufacturers rather than the date a piece was made. A number of marks were used by this manufacturer most including the initials fm a crown and the word bonn. A date lettering system was introduced around 1754.

8 where a yellow glazed bowl with cranes bearing this mark is illustrated from the collection of the victoria and albert museum london. Mar 18 2015 explore sandi logan s board collection of porcelain pottery makers marks followed by 367 people on pinterest. Marks from about 1745 the porcelain manufactory at vincennes established in 1740 on the grounds of a former hunting lodge east of paris marked its wares with the royal cipher two interlaced l s. Mark of franz anton mehlem s pottery made in bonn germany.

Epiag is one of the common austrian pottery marks and it dates the piece to after 1920. O eg marks are common and stand for oscar and edgar gutherz pottery and porcelain made near altrohlau. The range of moorcroft pottery marks begins with william moorcroft s time at the mackintyre pottery and covers the 100 year history of design and ownership by william his son walter moorcroft other more current owners and marks of artists and designers from the moorcroft design studio. See ming wilson rare marks on chinese ceramics london 1998 cat.

The shende tang was completed in 1831 thus making daoguang pieces with this mark attributable to the two decades between 1831 and 1850. From the other numbers and letters we can work out the date of the registration. Although gouda pottery refers to several companies from that region of holland each company or studio used different marks and logos to identify their wares. You can ignore the number at the left hand corner of the diamond this tells us how many items were included in the registration sometimes known as bundles or packages.

This is usually painted in cobalt blue either in overglaze enamel or in underglaze pigment. A few real life samples of genuine moorcroft pottery marks. If there is a number then the mark is 1842 1867. If the spelling is oepiag it is between 1918 and 1920.

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