DESCRIPTION: This chocolate pot was skillfully hand painted by the artist. The design includes large pink flowers with green washes and cartouches of reverse painted flowers on caramel tan color. The washes are green fading to light green to pale yellow. The overall quality of the design is quite professional and the satin finish is so different. The gold trim on the rim is very shiny and accents the scalloped rim. The fluted, embossed, footed chocolate pot is a beauty to behold. The chocolate cups have the same decoration as the pot. We do respect quality, antique pieces!
CONDITION: While this set is classified as used, its condition is superb. We can find no defects or damage. There are no chips, nicks, cracks, rubbings, scratches, crazing or hairlines. Overall, the gold trim is glossy and appears to be as applied.
DIMENSIONS: The chocolate pot is 7" handle to spout and has a height of 10 1/4" to the top of the lid with a capacity of 4 cups. The measurement of height to the spout is 9" and the base is 5 1/2" by 5". The cups have a diameter is 2 3/4" with a height of 3" and a capacity of 5 ounces.
HISTORY/MARKS: The roots of RS Prussia go back to 1868 when Reinhold Schlegelmilch purchased the forge for the purpose of establishing a porcelain factory. The factory soon became the largest employer in the area and despite the restrictions imposed by the McKinley Tariff act of 1884 continued to grow. The "RS" initials stand for Reinhold Schlegelmilch, founder of that porcelain factory specializing in hard paste porcelain at Suhl in Prussia which is present-day Germany. The work of his two sons, Arnold and Erhard, made the mark bearing his initials famous. Reinhold & Arnold operated the Suhl factory while Erhard established a porcelain factory in Tillowitz, Germany in 1894. Reinhold died in 1906 and later Arnold closed the porcelain factory in Suhl in December 1917, due to World War I and a shortage of people skilled in the making of such hard paste porcelain. Arnold joined Erhard at the Tillowitz factory which operated as part of Reinhold Schlegelmilch Enterprise until the death in 1934 of both brothers. The factory in Tillowitz remained opened under Schlegelmilch control (under sons of Arnold and finally Arnold’s granddaughter) until 1945 when it came under the administration of Poland after WWII. This set's red star & green wreath underglaze mark was used from 1900-1917 at the Suhl, Germany factory. This is mark #1 in Collector’s Encyclopedia of R.S. Prussia, 4th edition by Mary Frank Gaston.
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