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At the TS yesterday I saw an Art Nouveau vase standing among some modern bric a brac and was immediately drawn to it. At first, my thought it was a lamp base but looking inside there was no hole. Turning it over there was a faded and worn green felt pad. For $10 I decided to take a gamble.
At home I removed part of the pad. Immediately a red mark was visible. RStK Turn Teplitz
Bohemia.
Prices for this pottery range from the $100's to $1,000's. I will have to get it appraised.
A gilded, glossed, flowered Stellmacher ewer, for example, featuring a curvaceous mermaid-handle, is currently offered for $4,000 on a popular Internet site. A free-form, flowered Stellmacher pitcher featuring a ferocious, golden dragon-handle, commands nearly double.“The most collectible Teplitz pieces of all, however,” notes Stuart Slavid, vice president and director of European Furniture, Decorative Arts and Fine Ceramics at Skinner Auctions, “are those manufactured by the Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel Amphora Porcelain Works (RStK), which was founded in 1892. RSTK Reissner Stellmacher Kessel Austrian Amphora Pottery -Amphora is the name of a company and the term is often is used to describe the style of art pottery created at that period. Located in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), the firm , founded in 1892 by Eduard Stellmacher, Hans and Karl Reissner, and Rudolf Kessel. Eduard’s father Alfred Stellmacher, between 1876 and 1893, established himself as the master creator of decorative ceramics in Turn-Teplitz
At home I removed part of the pad. Immediately a red mark was visible. RStK Turn Teplitz
Bohemia.
Prices for this pottery range from the $100's to $1,000's. I will have to get it appraised.
A gilded, glossed, flowered Stellmacher ewer, for example, featuring a curvaceous mermaid-handle, is currently offered for $4,000 on a popular Internet site. A free-form, flowered Stellmacher pitcher featuring a ferocious, golden dragon-handle, commands nearly double.“The most collectible Teplitz pieces of all, however,” notes Stuart Slavid, vice president and director of European Furniture, Decorative Arts and Fine Ceramics at Skinner Auctions, “are those manufactured by the Riessner, Stellmacher and Kessel Amphora Porcelain Works (RStK), which was founded in 1892. RSTK Reissner Stellmacher Kessel Austrian Amphora Pottery -Amphora is the name of a company and the term is often is used to describe the style of art pottery created at that period. Located in Turn-Teplitz, Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), the firm , founded in 1892 by Eduard Stellmacher, Hans and Karl Reissner, and Rudolf Kessel. Eduard’s father Alfred Stellmacher, between 1876 and 1893, established himself as the master creator of decorative ceramics in Turn-Teplitz
