topic Help with mystery pottery, please in Coins, Stamps, Collectables & Antiques

Help with mystery pottery, please

oldworldlady — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 03:29:21 GMT

Hello everyone.

Any clues as to the maker of this very nice little drip glaze pot? Stamped 3389, I think, then an incised name of some sort. thanks for any help.

Pot is between 6 and 7 cm across the base, flares out a little and is 6 -7 cm tall.

I'm thinking it may be German?

Re: Help with mystery pottery, please

4ewesonly — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 04:43:20 GMT

hiya Owl, heres a link to West German Pottery.. its a gr8 site..

http://www.ginforsodditiques.com/wgermanmarks.html

Good Luck

Re: Help with mystery pottery, please

siddieswans — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 05:28:43 GMT

Oh, one I know 🙂 It actually says Soholm Denmark Stentig (which just means stoneware.)

Quite collectable. Looks very attractive.

http://www.retropottery.net/2010/10/soholm-stentoj-bornholm-denmark.html

Re: Help with mystery pottery, please

kopenhagen5 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:35:22 GMT

Ya beat me to it. 🙂

In very old Søholm pieces (around 1835 to 1878) the name will be marked Söholm. The company was founded in 1835 at Rønne, the principal town of Bornholm, a Danish island off the south coast of Sweden, and the name should not be confused with the town in Frederiksborg some twenty miles north of Copenhagen.

The Wolffsen family ran the pottery from 1878 into the first decade of the twentieth century and pieces from that period are often marked with the names H Wolffsen or Chr. L Wolffsen. From around 1910 to 1930 management was in the hands of Carl Møller. The use of earthenware was introduced after 1930 as an alternative to stoneware.

Noomi Backhausen was a designer for Søholm from 1966 to 1990 and set up her own pottery in Rønne in 1996.

Re: Help with mystery pottery, please

oldworldlady — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 09:58:56 GMT

How good are you people!
Thank you so much.

I wasn't far off, just over the Baltic :^O

Re: Help with mystery pottery, please

2chappies — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:29:37 GMT

I was going to say Swedish or Danish from the writing so my thought was on the money. 😉