Vintage Pottery/Porcelain Pitcher/Ewer w/couple, birds in cage, Pasture, circa 1920. In relatively good condition for antique Slovakian (Czechoslovakia) pottery has some color loss, some faint lines on rounded part due to age, some gold trim has lost part of color, Vintage item:  Materials: Czech Pitcher, Czech Porcelain, Czech Pottery, Czechoslovakia Pitcher, Czechoslovakia Pottery, Czechoslovakia Porcelain, Czecho Slovakia, Pastoral Scene Pottery, 1918 Czech Pottery, 1938 Czech Pottery, 1918 Czech Porcelain, Vintage Pottery. 
This is a beautiful vintage ceramic pitcher/ewer that was made in the early part of the 20th Century 8 inches tall and 4 inches wide at the center. It is mainly blue, with some pink and yellow parts and gold painted trim, and is decorated with a pastoral scene of a Man in blue & woman hold birdcage with doves/lovebirds with a dog at their feet. It has a squat body and a long spout. The unusual handle is formed by three elongated loops, of varying sizes, placed next to (and connected to) each other. The handle sits on top of the body, which has the effect of making the pitcher/ewer taller. The maker is unknown, but this item has a blue mark on its underside that may be a signature, and has the faded words “Made in Czecko-Slovakia (with a hyphen)” that are inside of a circle. The hypen is very faded, but the words “Czecho” and “Slovakia” are on two different lines, to emphasize that there was/is a hyphen present. There is also a letter O or D that covers part of the word “Czecho”. The letter is of unknown significance. The mark shows that this pitcher/ewer was made at some time between 1918 and 1938. 

The Czechs (aka Bohemians) and the Slovaks were two distinct groups of people. The ancestors of both groups were members of Slavic tribes that came to Europe during the great migrations of the 5th Century. The tribes settled in different areas and, for each group, lived their own distinctive history and developed their own culture and traditions. At the beginning of the 20th Century, both groups were living in areas that were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. During World War I, the Czechs and the Slovaks provided help to the Allied Nations. Following the war, in 1918, there was a dissolution of the empire and they were rewarded (for their war-assistance) with a country of their own. The new country was formed from the Bohemia, Slovakia, Selesia, Moravia, and Carpathian Ruthenia parts of the former empire. It was called Czecho-Slovakia (with a hyphen), because the majority of its citzens were either Czechs or Slovaks. When the new country was first formed, porcelain/pottery makers used marks on their products that indicated that they were made in Czecho-Slovakia (with a hyphen). In 1920, the name Czechoslovakia (without a hyphen) was first introduced. Between 1920 and 1938, the hyphenated name was (however) sometimes still used. After 1938, the country was never again formally known by the name of Czecho-Slovakia (with a hyphen). During World War II, from 1939 to 1945, Slovakia functioned as an autonomous state and the Czech territories were invaded by (and become a part of) Nazi Germany. After the war, the Soviet Union and the Communist Party took over the country and reunited the Czech and Slovak territories. The Soviets did not allow the use of the hyphenated Czecho-Slovakia name. In 1948, the Soviets changed the country’s name to the Czechoslovak Republic. When a new Constitution was written in 1960, the name was again changed, to the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. After the collapse of Communism, in 1989, the country’s formal name became the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic. In 1993, the federal republic was split into two different countries. The countries were (and still are) called the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic/Slovakia.

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