ALKA ALBOTH & KAISER PORCELAIN VASE BOAT SHAPE GOLD SWEN SHAPE HANDLES for Sale

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ALKA ALBOTH & KAISER PORCELAIN VASE BOAT SHAPE GOLD SWEN SHAPE HANDLES For Sale

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ALKA ALBOTH & KAISER PORCELAIN VASE BOAT SHAPE GOLD SWEN SHAPE HANDLES:
$149.00

THis item is about 75 years old!

Extraordinary beauty and unusual shape, elongated in the shape of a boat with gold handles in the shape of swans. EXCELLENT CONDITION-like NEW! Size 12.75” from swan handle to swan handle x 5.5” wide x 8.5” to top of swan handle. Base is 5” x 3.5” and is approximately 4.5” to servicing part of dish.

August Alboth founded his porcelain decorating business in Coburg in 1872. The firm was known as Porzellanveredelung August Alboth. His son Ernst joined in 1875. After August Alboth retired, his successor in 1898 relocated the factory to Kronach.

Ernst Alboth had two children - son Willy and daughter Erna. Erna in 1922 married the Munich banker Georg Kaiser. Willy Alboth joined the managenment in 1925.

Ernst Alboth died in 1927. The company name was changed to "Alka-Kunst". The Porzellanfabrik AL-KA Kunst Alboth & Kaiser survived from 1928 until 1951. The company in 1938 acquired the former Gebrüder Silbermann porcelain factory located in the town of Hausen.

In 1951 was formed The Porzellanfabrik AL-KA Kunst Alboth & Kaiser K.G. It was lead by a board of the three managers Georg Kaiser, Willy Alboth and Hubertus Kaiser