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Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: Tigerchips on September 13, 2008, 08:15:56 PM
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Would like to know who made this figurine please...
Amager is the island to the east of Copenhagen
Pottery mark here...
http://www.yobunny.com/pottery/Gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-298
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She is a pretty maiden...TC
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Please bear in mind that I know nothing about porcelain apart from the fact that I seem to break it every now and then. It was the "Amager" on the base that made me sit up.
There was a porcelain factory here on the island (Dansk porcel?nsfabrik) but it made porcelain isolators (for telephone poles ) and not figurines.
The figurines of girls in regional costumes including the"Amagerpiger" or "Amager girls" were very popular a generation or two ago, here you can see a couple:
http://www.jamerantik.dk/DJnational_dress.htm
There is no similarity between your figure and the ones in the link apart from the theme.
Short bit of history here: in 1521 the Danish king invited 24 dutch families to come and overtake the farms on the very fertile island of Amager. This because the Dutch were much better farmers than their Danish counterparts and the King also wanted to keep in with the Dutch incase of possible squabbles with Germany. The Danish farmers were given lands in another part of the country and the Dutch provided the royal palace with fresh vegetables and dairy products. In the 1950's there was even a thriving tulip industry here.There are a whole load of ins and outs but basically the southern part of the island became more or less Dutch. This is evident today in the existing architecture, family and place names.
Here's my hunch.. I'm pretty certain she isn't from Denmark but I do think she might be from Holland. Perhaps some Dutch porcelain factory made a series of figurines to represent the countries to where Dutch families emigrated.
As I say, it's just an idea. Hope I haven't wasted your time :)
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Thank's, the more info the better. ;)
In fact, your mention of Germany made me look a bit closer at the mark.
There's a small dark green number stamped on the base. Very similar to a Cortendorf number mark although it was probably used my many other companies in Germany or Holland, etc? The impressed four digit number (2018) would also be typical of German companies, including Cortendorf.
The mark has similarities with the mark on this horse...
http://www.yobunny.com/pottery/index.php?topic=1280.
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Aine, that's interesting, thank you for explaining it. I'd briefly come across the Danish islands before but didn't know of the Dutch connection. That could well be the link for TC's girl. The only figurines I found were made in Denmark by Royal Copenhagen and B&G and it's clearly not one of those.
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I?ll keep popping in to see what comes to light re. this lassie! :)