Antique Weimar Porcelain Grapevines Fruit & Flowers Antique Mark Circa 1887-1924 For Sale

Serving Bowl is 10\" in Diameter and the Ten individual bowls are 5\" in diameter.

In the year 1780Christian Andreas Wilhelm Speckfound out that the raw materials available in the area were not only suitable for manufacturing stoneware but also allowed the production of porcelain. Even after various fruitless efforts of trying to receive permission, he kept applying for a license to open business there for nearly ten years. Finally, on July 1st 1790, he was granted permission to build a factory by the local \"Earl\"Carl Friedrich Reichsgraf zu Hatzfeld zu Gleichen.

The blue \'S\' was used as first mark after production started the same year and in the year 1797,Christian Speckwas present at the Leipzig fair for the first time. His products were an instant success, ensuring constant orders for the next few years. Nearly the whole factory was destroyed in a fire on June 26th 1817 and this resulted in a smaller output capacity and hindered growth of the operation for quite some time.Christian Speckdied at the age of nearly 70 years on December 30th, 1830.

Using the same marks as before, the new owner from 1830 onwards wasGustav Vogt, an advisor to the local chamber of commerce. But in 1840 the company was taken over yet again, this time by the businessmanSorgefrom the town of Auma and his partnerIsidor Streithardtfrom the town of Uhlstädt. Things did not look so good until May 1841 when they were joined byH. Kästnerwho lived in Weimar and together they led the factory until 1848.

In 1848 the company was sold to theFasoldfamily who originally came from the city of Selb in Bavaria. They kept the business name until they joined up withEichelin 1856 and from 1873 onwards, the whole factory was upgraded and soon included various new buildings which actually doubled its value. The \"Weimar Dukes\" shield was finally adapted as trademark in 1887 and ten years later the factory even had its own electric power station. But shortly after that, the company dissolved as two of theFasoldfamily members died andEichelproved unable to run the company alone, so the business was sold toEduard Eichlerwho only owned it for a very short time before he himself changed his original business in Dux (today Duchcov) into a corporation. As the Blankenhain factory was now also part of the corporation, the name was also changed intoDuxer Porzellanmanufaktur

When the newly established DUXER PORZELLANMANUFAKTURtook over the porcelain factory in Blankenhain, the other Dux subsidiary in Šelty was liquidated; the corporation started to concentrate more on porcelain production as to replace the normal items produced until then. In 1900 the well-known trade-mark showing a pink colored triangle with the inscription \'ROYAL DUX BOHEMIA\' was introduced and one should take note as this was not the only mark the company used during that period. In the Art Nouveau period the company achieved a most remarkable success thanks to its modelerAlois Hampel. The factory was also awarded the Grand Prix at the world exhibition in St. Louis in 1904, the silver medal at the exhibition in Milan (Italy) in 1906 and the gold medal at the exhibition in Liberec (Czech Republic) shortly afterwards; some of the products introduced at that time are still produced in Dux up to this day. This successful period was interrupted by WWI and because of the specific character of the produced goods, the pre-war standard of production could not be maintained, resulting in financial difficulties that in the end forced the Dux company to sell the Blankenhain subsidiary at the end of 1917.

The factory was taken over by the Hamburg based familyCarstensin the same year, but the legal proceedings took until the following year before the name could be officially changed toBlankenhainer Porzellanfabrik C.&E. Carstens. After at first continuing to use the older mark, it was then changed in 1924 by adding the crown and laurel to the Duke\'s Weimar Shield.

The Blankenhain business was one of the first companies in East Germany that was nationalized in 1948, even before the official founding of the German Democratic Republic in October 1949. The company was renamed to V.E.B.Weimar Porzellanand from 1949 onwards (until 1980) the mark carried the addition \'MADE IN GDR\'.During the time from 1979 to 1984 the whole factory was modernized and some parts expanded further. A new production assembly with a capacity of 6,000 square meters was built and the traditional hand-fed and cleaned round kilns based on a 190-year-old technology was replaced by a modern tunnel kiln with a length of 75 meters in the year 1981. In the meantime, the factory was declared part of theFeinkeramik Kahlacombine in 1980 and the note \'MADE IN GDR\' was replaced by \'MADE IN GERMAN DEMOCRACTIC REPUBLIC\'.

The Thuringian Forest, GermanThüringerwald, range of forested hills and mountains in Germany, extending in an irregular line from the neighborhood of Eisenachin west-central Thuringiasoutheastward to the Bavarian frontier, where it merges with the Franconian Forest. Its breadth varies from 6 to 22 miles (10 to 35 km). It nowhere rises into peaks, and, of its rounded summits, the highest, Beerberg, rises only 3,222 feet (982 m). This range encloses many charming valleys and glens; the most prominent feature of its scenery is formed by the forests, chiefly of pines and firs. The northwest part of the system is the loftier and the more densely wooded as well as the more beautiful. The southeast part is the more populous and industrial.

The crest of the Thuringian Forest, from the Werra to the Saale rivers, is traversed by the Rennsteig, a broad path of unknown antiquity.

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