VASE, POTTERY, OCTAGON PILLAR, MAX ROESLER, GERMANY. JUGENDSTIL, c.1900.   

Vase, height an impressive 14 inches,  width 5-1/4  inches.  White pottery of octagonal pillar form with a pierced border and raised on 8 feet.  It is mounted with two wide gilded metal bands having 4 rectangular plaques of acanthus design. 

Impressed mark  #4765/ 3 for the pattern and impressed "scroll M scroll" over a shield with a rose for the company. There is a further small metal label “Germany ”. This is the factory mark used 1894-1920 for  the RMR company of Max Roesler, Germany.

Condition; staining to the feet.

Max Roesler(1840-1922). He first worked as a chemist and then entered the ceramics business. In 1893 he opened his own earthenware factory in Coburg.  The factory used the family coat of arms, a hedge rose, as its emblem.