Posted 9 years ago
anorak
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I found this antique stein ( it has a spout, so I am not sure if it should be called a stein or a jug) in a barn sale recently. It is approx. 8" high, and has a typical pewter rimmed stein lid. The only defect is a missing knob to the lid, the ceramic is not broken, it looks like a roughened area to key it where the knob was glued on. It is hand decorated. I cannot identify the mark, or find anything like it on line. Would very much like to know who made it and when.
Have you seen this site?
http://www.stein-man.de
I thin it might be this:
Friedrich Christian Greiner & Söhne / Rauensteiner Porzellanfabrik (A.G.)
Rauenstein bei Eisfeld. Thuringia.
Penned mark, dated 1850 - 1897. It was withdrawn after 1897 due to complaints by Meissen.
The original company was founded by three Greiner brothers, Johann Georg and Johann Friedrich & Christian Daniel Sigmund, on the 3rd March 1783 in the grounds of an empty castle, belonging to Duke George of Saxony-Meiningen. There was a plentiful supply of both labour and raw materials and they were guaranteed sufficient firewood for the kiln/s. Soon Rauenstein porcelain with its popular patterns such as blue onion, straw flowers and blue bird decoration was known far beyond the borders of Thuringia. By 1849, all the Greiner brothers having died, the shares were purchased by the merchant, Georg Heinrich Wirth, who appointed his son, Ernst Wilhelm Georgii to run the factory. Eventually, at its peak in 1881, the factory was run by Franklyn Georgii (b.1847 - d.1900). After 1893 the factory adopted the characteristic motifs of Delftware and marked it as such. The Dutch objected to the plagiarism and unsuccessfully sued the factory. Upon the death of Franklyn, the company changed its name and became an Aktiengesellschaft. After this time the factory went into decline, with its final firing in 1929. The factory grounds were purchased by the local municipality in 1930, with the company’s production being adopted by Kahla in 1934.
http://www.steinmarks.co.uk/pages/pv.asp?p=stein207
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