Glazed over marks can be the very devil to get an image of, but sometimes you can make a rubbing of it using fine paper and a soft crayon... that might be anough to bring it up, and then take a piccie of that instead.
I really don't think it's a student piece... here's why... looking at it, it reminds me of a coffee set my Mother has... hers is one of the miniature ones but the handle and finial on the lid are the same shape, hers is gold and has a Fragonard-type central image. I used to have one the same shape as hers in midnight blue, again with a rural scene in the middle. Now I know she's had hers for eons... her uncle bought it on one of his tourist trips abroad - most likely either Italy or Spain, probably in the 1960s. Mine, on the other hand, was bought new and boxed in the 1980s from a London market!
So, my feeling is that this is a piece from sometime between the 1920s-1980s, from mainland Europe, and would have been a regular item not a student piece. The 1963 might be the date or it might be the pattern number of the it might be the decorator's reference code. Remember that many of the decorators were paid "piece work", so every item they decorated would carry their unique identifier - without that number the boss wouldn't know who to pay for the work done on it. If the number is painted or gilded then it's more likely to be a decorator's mark, if incised then a pattern number would be more likely.
Having said all that, I've just had the thought that it could be French, along the lines of the ones shown on this page:
http://www.frenchantiquesarlette.fr/S5309_coffee_set_29_pieces_Limoges_WEBE.jpg or even Bavarian (this one's like a full-size version of my Mother's, but the finial is different):
http://62.15.226.148/tc/2009/09/17/14978441.jpg - Bavaria produced a massive range of porcelain tableware.
This probably doesn't take you any further forward, except to know that we're still puzzling over it!
Topic: 1960's Porcelain Coffee Pot (Read 3519 times)