I brought some porcelain on ebay which was marked victoria, czechoslovakia and EPIAG, Czechoslovakia. The were listed on ebay as Rosenthal. When i queried it with seller they said the following, is this right?
With reference to your comments regarding authenticity, these are indeed Rosenthal pieces, and we would like to make the following observations. During the period of the Weimar Republic (1929), when these pieces were manufactured, Rosenthal were situated on the border of Bavaria and the Sudetenland (German speaking) part of Czechoslovakia. The Rosenthal company used German citizens in this area to decorate some of the pieces that it produced in exactly the same manner as did Limoges in France and Murano in Italy. Therefore, not all Rosenthal pieces have the maker’s name on them, but the artist’s initials appear on both stamped and unstamped pieces.
Thanks
Paul
The first mark type, VICTORIA, was (in that specific form) used by the ‘Schmidt & Co.’ factory from the city of Altrohlau, between 1939 and 1945.
The second mark, ROYAL EPIAG, was used from 1945 until 1958; it was introduced after the former ‘Schmidt & Co.’ factory had been nationalized into the EPIAG group as subsidiary of the head factory “Starorolsky Porcelan”.
(a) both datings do not match the claimed ‘Weimar Republic era’ (1918 – 1933)
(b) both items carry handwritten decorator (or ownership) initials … as in “hobbyist decorator” that is, not factory or studio decorated.
All the codswallop re: Rosenthal and related decorators is – as mentioned – utter nonsense.