Featured Carlsbad porcelain plates - can anyone date these

I can find a lot of very similar plates with an image of Napolean but not these.
The are approximately 10.75 inches in diameter
Thank you

 

Hello @Ronald Paul & welcome to the forum!!

I also found several other cabinet plates with this same pattern around the edge but different scenes in the center.

If you did not know the blue mark is referred to as the "Beehive" mark.

Maybe @Bronwen can help with the scenes.

https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf...kFHQSXAAsQjJkEegQIJRAC&biw=1920&bih=937&dpr=1

Can you add a full photo of the bottom of one of the plates? Also, maybe post the front of the plates individually & right side up.

 

I can't add too that ....but boy do they all seem to be having a good time !!!!!!!

I think wine was stronger back then..!

 

Thank you. I will have to unpack the plates to get a full shot of the bottom - will do so later.

 

I'd say bacchanal (or bacchanantes) for the subject matter.

 

Bacchanalian scenes. Female figures are called bacchantes (or maenads in Greek). Because depictions differ, I'm not sure whether the artist had any of the male figures in mind to be Bacchus (Dionysus) himself. The young man would be considered a faun, one of the conventional members of the 'revel rout'. I suspect the [MOS got in here] mature, skin-girt guy is meant for the god himself, although to me he looks more like another companion, Silenus, who is often shown tipsily plodding along on the donkey, not leading it, as he does on the plate. This is a typical representation of this gang:

 

Could be from a larger series with a center piece showing the major figures.

 

The decorator's mark for Friedrich Simon, Karlsbad FSC is shown in Rontgen's book of marks and he dates it around 1920.

 

very interesting - thank you all

 

I've tried to make out what is says under the decorator mark and I think it's an EPIAG mark.

Some examples of the EPIAG marks.

https://www.worthpoint.com/marks/searchDetails?query=epiag&categories=ceramics&page=&max=20

 

I can't tell either - not sure what it is.
Thank you

 

I found this handled plate with a different scene listed on eBay Australia.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/295312257255?hash=item44c1fb70e7:g:feAAAOSw9Q1jYiJN

 

I know it's a typo...auto correct....

but I'm still wondering how u could smell that plate !!

 

It would have to be post 1919 as Czechoslovakia was "created" after WW1.

 

My brain automatically goes to perfume bottles.

BTW I am on a desktop so it wasn't auto-correct my brain just automatically goes to perfume bottles.

 

good point - ty

 

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