Let's Talk About Pottery & Collectables

Pottery => What's my Pottery? => Topic started by: caterer on April 08, 2009, 03:16:06 PM

Title: makers mark id
Post by: caterer on April 08, 2009, 03:16:06 PM

Hi
is anyone familiar with this mark, I think the item is porcelain


Thanks
Hazel  :rn:

Title: Re: makers mark id
Post by: Anne on April 08, 2009, 05:38:06 PM

Can we see the item as well please Hazel, as that might help. Is the mark fuzzy or is it just hard to photograph?

Title: Re: makers mark id
Post by: ChimpMad on April 08, 2009, 11:29:00 PM

The beehive mark is most famous for Royal Vienna and Copenhagen porcelain though it is massively faked. A picture of the piece would help enormously.

Title: Re: makers mark id
Post by: caterer on April 09, 2009, 12:48:13 PM

Hi
I have attached some pics for you, dont laugh at the state of it, it is my friends and she wanted me to do some homework on it  for her, as she says somethings that are in need of tlc can still be worth money, any way it is missing a lid, it has been restored on the stand and one of the eagle heads has been broken off, which I do still have.
But if is still very nice and if restored properly it would make a very nice ornament.... thats what I keep telling myself.
Hopefully this will give you more of an idea who made it. :huh:
the mark was hard to photo even though I have a macro lens, I think it was the photgrapher not the camera :-\, but on looking in natural light it is not defined lines and it is not a dark blue, a bit wishy washy - faint I dont know whether this helps.

Thanks  :)

Hazel

Title: Re: makers mark id
Post by: antiquerose123 on April 11, 2009, 08:41:54 AM

ohhhhh.....that is VERY PRETTY.  I like, and  :mrgreen: with envy..

Title: Re: makers mark id
Post by: caterer on April 11, 2009, 05:23:11 PM

Hi
yes it is very pretty, that is why it is such a shame there is damage and the lid is missing, this is my friends and it was her husbands sisters so it is pretty old, that is why I wanted to find out a bit about it, i did find that the bee hive mark is one of the most copied marks going and it takes an expert to identify whether it is fake or real, so this may need to go in the box of items i am taking to the auction house.
if the eagle head was glued back  on it would make a nice vase tho, so if it is not worth anything it can still have a use :)
have a good weekend & dont eat too many easter eggs :sk2:

Hazel