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Antique Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel (RStK) TURN TEPLITZ Large Porcelain Bust For Sale
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Antique Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel (RStK) TURN TEPLITZ Large Porcelain Bust:
$795.00
Large Antique Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel (RStK) TURN TEPLITZ Bohemia, Austria Art Nouveau Style Porcelain Bust ca. 1892-1905.
Measurements: This large bust is 17-3/4" in Height x 15-1/2" in Width x 9-3/4" in Depth. It weighs 13 pounds, 7 ounces.
Marker's Marks: The bust has the common printed red mark of "RStK TURN-TEPLITZ-BOHEMIA Made in Austria" that was used by the firm from ca. 1891 until 1904 when the partners went separate ways. In addition there are impressed marks of "1186" (with the six being noticeably smaller than the first three numbers), and the number "3" impressed just below. I do not detect the Amphora impressed oval mark. Finally, there is a handwritten mark "14AZ" near the edge of the base.
Background, per Kovel's website: "Teplitz refers to art pottery manufactured by a number of companies in the Teplitz-Turn area of Bohemia during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Two of these companies were the Alexandra Works, founded by Ernst Wahliss, and The Amphora Porcelain Works, run by Reissner, Stellmacher, and Kessel. Amphora Porcelain Works used a variety of marks with the wordAmphoraor the initialsRS&K." Company History (with credit to Amphora Collector's Org website. A detailed history may be found there.): Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel (RStK) porcelain factory started production in Turn, Austria in 1892. They also operated under the business name of "Amphora". Amphora’s goal was to create luxury porcelain objects. Amphora collections received countless awards from 1893 through 1904, beginning with the highest award at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago and the prestigious Gold Medal at the San Francisco Exhibition. That success led to increased sales and production, eventually opening a third plant in 1895 "which produced faience, decorated earthenware vases, jars, and earthenware figurines and vases with animals. Starting in the late 1890’s the Art Nouveau style was evident in the designs of Eduard Stellmacher and Paul Dachsel." "After 1904, the main artistic designers, Paul Dachsel and Eduard Stellmacher left the company to start their own separate firms. Hans Riessner was left to head up artistic design and developed the Gres-Bijou series, but the company would never produce the high quality ceramics it had from 1895 to 1904; however the company continued to be run by Alfred Stellmacher’s progeny until it was nationalized by the Czechoslovakian government in 1945."
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