Featured Jugendstil styled vase. Of the period or after?

I’ve owned this vase over 30 years.
I love its design and colors.

Does this generic looking mark date it to the to the period?

8” high
3.5” wide an a 3.125” base
2” mouth



It seems to be made of some type of earthenware. A chip in the glaze of a flower reveals a red-brown material. This chip also indicates that the flower shapes were part of the mould and guided the decorators.

The large stamped mark is under the glaze.

I have found two similar examples of the floral design (attached) both having a plain Germany mark. One seller thought it from the 1920s and the other did not try to pin a date on it.

Thanks,
James.

 

It might be Karlsruhe, the overall feel has a vague technical similarity to Max Laeuger's 19thc Art Nouveau earthenwares, but might just be another later factory following in his footsteps; I'm not suggesting your pieces are 19thc, the twenties does seem reasonable though as there wouldn't have been much call for designs like that once the Jazz age got going.

 

JMHO. post-1945. Adolf didn't like English...
not Laeuger. good stuff always marked.
without research I'd go for Huber-Roethe of Villingen-Schwenningen.

 

And English certainly didn't like Adolf.

 

Made in Germany was introduced in Britain by the Merchandise Marks Act in 1887

I feel that your vase dates c1900-1920

 

Post '45 would have usually said Western Germany or Foreign tho'. I'm voting between the wars on this, probably 30s.

 

the two Germany stamps on the example do neither look right from the font nor do they look anything other than normal rubber stamping.

 

Blooey, I agree that this follows in the footsteps of better known factories.

Fid, I’d agree that good stuff is “usually” marked. Good in the sense of well-known / high-end producers.

John, this is my leaning.

I’m on the same page with the above. I feel it is a lesser known manufacture able to compete with similar products. Possibly considered as a cheap knock-off for export. I'm cool with that.

Thanks for the input.
James.

 

I looked through the Laeuger book and an additional book about the Jugendstil in Alsace and S/W Germany but didn't find anything similar.
for Laeuger it's too coarse, although his successor Kusche worked a bit coarser. but I didn't see anything formwise that would fit.
only thing formwise I remember is a glass vase from around Nancy.

 

Fid, thanks for looking that up. Great information.

James.

 

Just to be clear, I said it had a vague similarity to the work of Laeuger by virtue of the earthenware body and the type of glaze and coloration ...not that it was a piece of his. I'm pretty familiar with the work of Max Laeuger handling several pieces over the years. I still have one in my collection, this one:

 

very nice.
I only wanted to make sure that it wasn't one of the VERY rare unmarked.
I'm quite familiar with his work. 15 minutes as the crow flies to Kandern and being myself from Basel where he worked for the rich and designed whole interiors.