MOKKA ART DECO WEIMAR KOBALTOWA - BARDZO ŁADNA
kształt na planie oŚmiokąta MA WYTŁACZANEJ NÓŻCE - delikatna cienkościenna porcelana z doskonałej fabryki rodziny Carstens Blankenhein.
Stan filiżanki idealny- sygnatura dla amerykańskiej firmy Wheelock z 1926 roku!!!
wysokość 7 cm średnica 6,5 cm od brzegu do ucha 8,5 cm
podstawek nieoryginalny czarna emalia Stadtilm średnica 11 cm
Blankenhain:
[1] : Christian Andreas Wilhelm Speck (1790 until 1830)
In the year 1780 Christian Andreas Wilhelm Speck found 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 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 Speck was 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 industrial growth for quite some time. Christian Speck died at the age of nearly 70 years on December 30th, 1830.
[1] : Porzellanfabrik Christian Speck (1830 until 1848)
Using the same marks as before, the new owner from 1830 onwards was Gustav Vogt, an advisor to the local chamber of commerce. But in 1840 the company was taken over yet again, this time by the businessman Sorge from the town of Auma and his partner Isidor Streithardt from the town of Uhlstädt. Things did not look so good until May 1841 when they were joined by H. Kästner who lived in Weimar and together they led the factory until 1848.
[2] : Porzellanfabrik Fasold & Eichel (1848 until 1898)
In 1848 the company was sold to the Fasold family who originally came from the city of Selb in Bavaria. They kept the business name until they joined up with Eichel in 1856 and from 1873 onwards, the whole factory was upgraded and soon included various new buildings which actually doubled its value. The shield of the Weimar dukes 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 the Fasold family members died and Eichel proved unable to run the company alone, so the business was sold to Eduard Eichler who 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 into 'Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G.'.
[3] : Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G. (1898 until 1918)
When the newly established Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G. took 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 coloured 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 modeller Alois 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.
[4] : Blankenhainer Porzellanfabrik C.&E. Carstens (1918 until 1948)
The factory was taken over by the Hamburg based family Carstens in the same year, but the legal proceedings took until the following year before the name could be officially changed to 'Blankenhainer 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.
[5] : V.E.B. Weimar Porzellan (1948 until 1990)
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 Porzellan' and from 1949 onwards (until 1980) the mark carries 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 were replaced by a modern tunnel kiln with a lenght of 75 meters in the year 1981. In the meantime, the factory was declared part of the 'Feinkeramik Kahla' Combinate in 1980 and the note 'MADE IN GDR' was replaced by 'MADE IN GERMAN DEMOCRACTIC REPUBLIC'.
The highlights of production during the era of the German Democratic Republic were:
• Leipzig Fair 1965, Gold Award for the China set 'Exquisit'
• Leipzig Fair 1980, Gold Award for the China set 'Saskia'
• Leipzig Fair 1983, Gold Award for the China set 'Alt Weimar'
• Leipzig Fair 1987, Gold Award for the China set 'Victoria'
After the fall of the German Democratic Republic in 1989, Weimar Porzellan was integrated in the Treuhandanstalt program founded by the West German state.
[6] : Weimar Porzellan G.m.b.H. (1990 until today)
Continuing a short time as a company under Treuhand leadership, the company found an investor and from January 1st 1992 onwards the 'Weimar Porzellan G.m.b.H.' belonged to the real estate group 'Herbert Hillebrand Baubetreuungs- und Grundbesitz K.G.', which was based in Kerpen-Horrem and at that time also included:
• Ceramics: Zeller Keramik G.m.b.H. in 'Zell am Harmersbach', West Germany
• Crystal: 'Barthmann Cristall G.m.b.H.' in Wolfach, West Germany
• Crystal: 'Crystal Castell G.m.b.H.' in Annahütte, East Germany
• Cutlery: 'Wellner Bestecke und Silberwaren G.m.b.H.' in Aue, East Germany
• Porcelain: Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur G.m.b.H. in Wallendorf, East Germany
But this grouping had its flaws and two of the three East German companies had to close, forcing Herbert Hillebrand to file for bankruptcy as it had cost his group approximately 118 million Euro. 'Zeller Keramik' and the 'Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur' were released out of the bankrupt group and are still operational today, but in the beginning of 1995 'Weimar Porzellan' had financial problems. On June 1st 1995 the company was re-established and an intensive restructuring program was initiated which included reducing the production area from a four-floored building with 30,000 square meters down to a ground-level building with 9,000 square meters. Investments regarding the productivity and quality were made, including new firing and glazing kilns worth 1,3 million Euro. In 1997 the newly constructed decorating section including the new decoration/glazing kiln was put into service, drastically cutting energy costs and maximizing production flexibility.
In July 1998 the company opened a special event sales and factory outlet area with 400 square meters and also started to offer guided tours and decoration classes. This feature was not only of special interest for tourists and in 1999 the special event and factory outlet area grew to a size of 600 square meters and a second firing/glazing kiln was taken into service. All together the investments made since 1995 total a value of over three million Euro.
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