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Deep burgundy rings a hand-painted bouquet on these Hutschenreuther plates, framed in encrusted gold. They come from the Art Deco years of the mid-1920s, when design prized costly materials and fine craftsmanship. Read its story.
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The Art Deco years prized costly materials, and that taste glows in the 24kt gold encrusted over these burgundy bands, where the deep red still carries the design.
The green crowned-lion stamp beneath each plate names Hutschenreuther of Selb, Bavaria, a porcelain house that began at Hohenberg and added a second factory in Selb in 1857. On these plates its rich goldwork and painted flowers share the surface in perfect balance, neither crowding the other.
Gilded blossoms and birds wind through the gold frame, gleaming against the wine-dark band like embroidery on velvet. When the plates catch the light, those golden birds seem ready to take flight from the table.
Hutschenreuther began with a young porcelain painter from Thuringia. At the start of the nineteenth century he set out for Bavaria, and the house dates its founding to 1814 at Hohenberg. After years of patience, in 1822 he won approval to open Bavaria's first private porcelain manufactory.
His son Lorenz carried the craft to Selb and opened a second factory there in 1857. The time-honored house took gold medals at a world exhibition devoted to glass and porcelain. In about 1903 the Lorenz Hutschenreuther works made a service designed by Hans Christiansen and decorated with stylized roses.
To this day Selb is called the heart of German porcelain. Its porcelain now graces homes far beyond Bavaria, gathered by collectors who value quiet craftsmanship. They know each piece carries the dream of a young painter who set out from Thuringia.
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