Featured Continental Majolica Mark

I’ve been chatting online with the seller of this plate in an attempt to identify the maker but have drawn a blank so far.

it looks like Italian majolica but the very well painted design is Persian influenced .

It has an impressed mark which looks to begin OTTO at the top and end with STR and a number. Both these indicate a German or Austrian (or even Swiss) maker but I can find nothing at all.

It’s a long shot but can anyone make out the maker?

 

Looks like OTTO BREWE.
Brewe is a surname here in the Netherlands, but I think it originated in a German speaking country.

 

Yes I searched Otto Brewe with no luck.

 

I keep seeing Nieustr 35 in the bottom line, which would suggest a Dutch address. Odd for a ceramicist to stamp his address like that, bwdik.

Nieustr is short for Nieustraat, New Street. The official spelling would be Nieuwstraat, but there are towns where they still use an older spelling.

I could be reading it wrong, of course.

 

That’s interesting. Thanks.

 

Forgot to say, it is very beautiful. Not a style I associate with the Netherlands though.
Maybe @Aquitaine can tweak the mark for you?

 

Looks like OTTO BREWS

 

Here's an inverted of that:

 

That’s great. Thank you very much sabre123

 

It's a bit darker, as well as inverted also, but not sure I was able to get the lower letters any clearer......

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Not a lot of his work around. Here's the mark from this piece. Berlin.

https://www.invaluable.com/auction-lot/wandteller-um-1900-1521-c-b0a4f3b935

Debora

 

Another example.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/price-result/pair-otto-drews-berlin-faience-chargers/

Debora

 

A tiny bit of biographical information. (Web site of the State Museum of Berlin.)

https://smb.museum-digital.de/object/231203

Debora

 

Thanks everyone. Problem solved . Fine artist.

 

Certainly. Lovely Orientalist work, something I like anyway.

 

Nice stuff!