The mark on a piece of porcelain often tells more than the maker s name.
Ceramic marked crown ap.
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The range of moorcroft pottery marks begins with william moorcroft s time at the mackintyre pottery and covers the 100 year history of design and ownership by william his son walter moorcroft other more current owners and marks of artists and designers from the moorcroft design studio.
You may find the artist s initials symbol or signature.
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The dresden decorators covered these porcelain marks with a gold glaze and then applied their own above glaze mark.
A few real life samples of genuine moorcroft pottery marks.
Identify a mark by shape.
Some marks look like a circle square bird or animal shape etc.
One beneath the glaze indicating the factory that produced the blank and the second above the glaze indicating the decorator.
This crown devon made in england stamped pottery mark with no crown mark just two dots at the end of crown and the start of devon.
Marks with letters are listed in alphabetical order.
Often times a piece of china will bear two marks in this way.
This crown mark was used 1885 1902.
Since this mark was used on figurines produced for 70 years the style must be examined to determine the age.
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Most japanese porcelain marks are ink stamped or have a label sticker.
Also if the piece was produced after 1891 the united states requires that all imported porcelain must have the country of origin stamped on it near or within the maker s mark.
It has the naples type crown typical of german makers paying homage to capodimonte but normally these marks have an n or an s under not an a.
Sometimes seen with a germany circle mark in addition to the crown mark.
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Usually a blue crown.
As a result many porcelain items imported from europe show the trading company.
This rubber stamp was in use c1939 and used there after.
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