Description
Antique
Helena Wolfsohn
Dresden
Quatrefoil shape cup and saucer.
19thc 1873~79
AR blue under glaze mark (Augustus Rex)
Beautifully painted with flowers and courting couples.
Both the cup and the saucer have beautiful gold gilt detailing.
Both items have the AR mark to the base.
The saucer measures just under 13.5 x1 2cm diameter.
The cup measures just over 8.3cm in height.
Condition is very good. There is a little wear on rim areas to the gold gilding of the items. These are handpainted and all painting appears good and not defaced in any way, although there are a couple of white tiny scratches to the turqouise background.
info
Around the time this miniature Helena Wolfsohn vase was decorated, there were at least forty porcelain painting studios located near or in the city of Dresden, all decorating porcelain in the Meissen style.
A large percentage of the porcelain was produced by the Meissen factory. Most of it being seconds, sold in the white, that didn’t pass the Meissen factory quality control
The augustus rex mark (AR) was introduced by Meissen in the first half of the 18th century around the same time at the crossed swords mark was introduced,
Other porcelain manufacturers and outside decorators quickly saw the advantage of including a pseudo AR mark on their own porcelain products.
The AR mark was intended to be used only on items produced for the court of Elector August the Strong, founder of the Meissen factory and later reigning monarch of Poland. The mark was always applied by hand, in underglaze blue.
Helena Wolfsohn wasn’t a porcelain manufacturer but rather a painting studio that decorated externally bought porcelain; mostly Meissen blanks.
However, the AR monogram on early wares is often under the glaze and we can assume porcelain blanks were ordered with the mark applied before firing.
The Wolfsohn mark is one of the best examples of the Meissen Augustus Rex mark you will find.
We can post worldwide. All items are extremely well packaged.
