Hand Written Red Pottery mark R & 434 on Fancy Blue Porcelain China Cup & Saucer

by Colin Taylor
(Gloucester, England)

Hand Written Red Pottery mark R & 434 on Fancy Mauve/Blue Porcelain China Cup & Saucer:- One bone china Cup & Saucer with the sign R and a number434. Its mauve on the outside with flower sprays white on the inside with a border on the top rim.

Colin

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Hand Written Red Pottery mark R & 434 on Fancy Mauve/Blue Porcelain China Cup & Saucer

The forum Help Elf says:-

Colin

This is an obscure one for sure! But thanks for uploading anyway. We'll do our best, and hope someone can corroborate.

The only maker I can find that really fits the bill, although they are obscure to the point of having only one reference to them in Kovel's showing a hand written single R mark (not quite the same as your one and it is illustrated with a back & white illustration rather than any photos), is Greiner & Holzapfel of Volkstedt, Thuringia, E. Germany, founded 1759. They are, by all accounts still in business according to Kovels, so you might be able to ask the company themselves to confirm. They certainly are one of the only fine porcelain makers to have used an R mark, but I have never set eyes on any actual examples or photos of their mark - only the illustration in Kovel's. I would like to get to see a few more examples of their actual mark.

Maybe yours is one such example?

Hopefully, others can come in with more info.

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