Featured Victorian Hot Chocolate Set With Three Different Maker's Marks (Austrian/British)

I recently purchased this Victorian bone china cocoa set. I was able to narrow the M. Z. Austria mark down to 1884-1904, but I've had trouble with the other marks. The M.Z. Austria mark is on the teacups, while the Bisto mark is on the saucers, and the Leonard Vienna Austria mark is on the cocoa pot.

What would you call this style? Art Nouveau?

How much would you say something like this is worth? They are all hand-painted and in excellent condition, with no chips, crazing, or cracks.

 

I believe the marks are all green ware marks on items purchased separately and decorated by a hobbyist. The dates of the green ware marks only tell you the earliest they could have been painted.

 

At the turn of the century ladies enjoyed China painting as a hobby. What they did was buy white china blanks, what Janet is calling green ware.
They would then paint the china either free hand or from patterns.

Often you will see a name and a date on the bottom which helps identify it as hobbiest. Some were more professional and signed their names in the artwork itself. Some isn't signed at all.

As in all art, there are good painters and some not so good.

I think yours was one of the more talented ones.

 

That is GORGEOUS!!!

 

I agree, lovely decoration, perfectly spaced.

 

mutter mutter thou shalt not covet mutter mutter...

 

Bishop and Stonier, if it helps. Between 1891 and the 1920s. I agree on hobby painted.

 

Thank you! That makes sense. I didn't think they were hobbyist paintings. They look so nice...

These aren't signed, unfortunately. But now I know what those occasional signed pieces I come across are all about

 

Thanks! I fell in love with them when I saw them.

I really like how the flowers are painted vertically on the china.

Haha! I'm going to be posting it on my Etsy store soon, I think. I just wanted more information on them first.

 

Thank you! Now, I have a better range. I figure these were painted around the same time, so if I can find an intersection between all three dates, that will help.
I assume it's around 1891 - 1909 now.

 

JMHO, not Art Nouveau in style. They are very pretty