Figurine with Semi-Circle Sunburst or Sunrays on Round Badly Printed Pottery Mark with Unreadable Letters Beneath

Figurine with Semi-Circle Sunburst or Sunrays on Round Badly Printed Pottery Mark with Unreadable Letters Beneath:- This is a figurine i have had about 35 years I am trying to date and find maker. The mark is round and divided into two parts. The top half is a semi-circular sunburst design or sunrays and the lower half contains letters or initials which are unreadable / illegible. The whole stamp is badly applied and rather splodgy or blurred.

Anon

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Figurine with Semi-Circle Sunburst or Sunrays on Round Badly Printed Pottery Mark with Unreadable Letters Beneath

Hi

This is a strange one because the actual item looks to be the genuine quality of a late 19th century figurine in terms of sculpt and decoration, yet it has a very bad mark which looks like a Far East maker of the 1950's mass production.

The mark is one I have never seen before and is not listed in my books.

This leads me to think this may be from an East German maker, or another country of the Eastern communist block (Bohemia), i.e. behind the iron curtain post WW2 - who would have had all the production values of the communist regime (i.e. none - as shown in Lada cars) yet had the privileges of having inherited original moulds from an earlier era of production, prior to the Soviet era.

Just a theory....

However, another theory would be that this item is very similar in style (bisque finish and very 19th Century Germanic sculpting) to the Japanese fake Kalk figurines that are knocking around all over the place.

These fakes mainly stem from an importer called Arnart or Homco in the 1950's, and 60's whose standard labelling and pottery marks tended to be a lot different from this mark.

So, there we are, two theories for the price of one!

Peter (admin)

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