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Your Price: $ 12.50
Item Number: 2057 |
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Circa: 1862 Manufacturer: Fischer & Mieg China
Neat piece found out of a home. This is an antique piece of china or porcelain (it is translucent), a low bowl or dish, white with pale pink lines and gold trim. In the center is hand painted in Olde English lettering "Karlsbad 1862". Round, measuring 7 1/4 inches diameter and sits 1 1/4 inches in height. Weighs about 9 1/4 ounces unpacked.
This has an impressed "F & M" mark on the center backside, indicating it was made by Fischer & Mieg. F&M used this mark from 1857-1875, supporting the 1862 date on the front side. Fischer & Mieg was based in Pirkenhammer, Bohemia which became Brezova, Czechoslovakia, so this is a piece of Bohemian or Czech art pottery from the Victorian period. Since Karlsbad is actually a city in the district of Karlsruhe, in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, we believe this piece may have been made and decorated for export to Germany, perhaps for another company, store or an individual living in this city.
In addition to the decor, this antique bowl has 3 molded circles in the porcelain, in the center and two at the base and top of the slanted outward sides before extending a bit more to the outer rim. Given the inner lower circle, perhaps this low bowl was originally meant to be an under plate or under dish to something else, we don't know. On the exterior you can see the lower molded circular line near the base on which this sits.
We've provided 8 images, shot with and without the camera light. The camera light helps to see the piece better overall but the brightness also sometimes makes it difficult to see some of the detail and can change the coloring. There is one image of the F&M impressed mark which was very hard to shoot/show. Please use the zoom feature to examine closely.
While this piece has no chips or crazing, it does have 3 large hairlines and significant paint wear, particularly to the gold line trim. Two of the hairlines are visible on the topside and bottom sides, extending from the outer rim into the slanted sides of the dish from roughly opposite sides of the bowl. One stops at the inner lowest gold line (running about 1 1/2 inches in length) while the other extends slightly past this gold line (running about 1 5/8 inches in length). You might not notice these on display or hanging on a wall, but you can see them when inspecting the dish close-up (we did our best to try and show these hairlines in images but they are faint and hard to shoot). The third hairline is only visible on the underside of the dish, in the center section, running about 2 1/4 inches in length (again, you don't see this on the top side). There is some gold paint wear to the "Karlsbad 1862" but this is still fully readable, as you can see in the images. Additionally you can see other evidence of age/wear via some pin/pit dots in the china, other stray dots and light spotting (not bad), some darkening on the underside base on which this piece sits, etc.
Still a nifty hard to find antique ceramic piece. This would make an interesting gift for anyone with a family background extending back to Karlsbad, Germany in the mid 1800's, as well as for a collector of Bohemian or Czechoslovakian pottery or china. |
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