This is an Estate Fresh old FINE M&Z HAPSBURG Austria / Czechoslovakia 12" CHARGER with FINGER HANDLES a CAKE or SERVING PLATE with GREEN & BLUE FEATHER IRIS FLOWERS w GOLD TRIM & GOLD PAINTED LEAVES, just nicely paint decorated! Its 11.75" BIG and it BEAUTIFUL!!   

The plate's MZ Austria mark was used by Moritz Zdekauer on porcelains made at their Altrohlau, Austria, works from 1884-1909. Since 1909, the company has changed hands but kept the MZ trademark because it was so well recognized. The back is stamped with "Habsburg-China MZ Austria" in green along with the Burley & Tyrrell importer/distributor mark of "BT Co" in a shield with a crown above it.   The company is still in operation and goes under the name Starorolsky Porcelan Moritz Zdekauer.  For years I thought it was made in Austria. Well, it was....and it wasn't. I couldn’t locate Altrohlau, Austria, on a map. That’s because the town is now known as Stara Role in the Czech Republic! Much of Czechoslovakia was in the Hapsburg Empire in the late 1800s which is why this plate carries the Hapsburg name. The company was started in 1810 in what is now Stara Role and eventually had warehouses in Prague, Vienna and Pest.

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