Antique Dresden Flowers Meissen Vase Porcelain Victorian 2024 Shabby Cottage Chic

Antique Dresden Flowers Meissen Vase Porcelain Victorian Shabby Cottage Chic.

Lovely antique porcelain vase featuring hand painted multicolored flowers and rococo gilding in the Dresden style. Base has gold rose mark covering original manufacturer's mark, this was a practice done by all the most well-known Dresden studios. Also has hand painted "Meissen" mark with a crown. I was unable to figure out this decorator marking. This may be a Richard Klemm piece.

Vase stands 4.5 tall x 3.25" diameter at the top rim tapered to 2.5" at the base.

Condition: Very good pre-owned condition, no chips or cracks.

This is part of a huge collection of antique Nippon and European (including Limoges) porcelain that I recently acquired from a longtime elderly collector who needed to sell off her collection as she was moving into an assisted living facility. All pieces are authentic and antique. I will be listing more of these pieces over the next few weeks, so please check back to see what is new to my shop.

Karl Richard Klemm founded a porcelain decorating studio in Striesen bei Dresden in 1869. At the time, there were more than forty studios in and around Dresden that specialized in the painting of porcelain in the Meissen style. The porcelain was obtained primarily from the Meissen factory itself, much of it being seconds. The decorating style of Richard Klemm closely matched that of the Meissen factories at that time. He often used a heavily applied style that focused on florals. In many instances, the porcelain pieces of Richard Klemm are emblazoned with a gold leaf at the base. This gold leaf was used to hide the marks made by the original manufacturer of the blanks that he used for 2024 decorating.

Richard Klemm, along with Helena Wolfsohn, Karl Thiem, Ambrosius Lamm and Donath & Co., were among the most sought after porcelain decorating studios at this time. In the early 1880's Richard Klemm registered his mark, the "Klemm Dresden Crown", as design No 24, at the Reichs-Warenzeichenregister, or RWZR, which was the central office for registering of all porcelain trade names and marks. He merged his company with the studio of Donath & Co. in 1916. However the merged companies were subsequently purchased in 1918 by Hutschenreuther.