Schwarzenhammer - Coffee and tea service (27) - Ceramic

Coffee service consisting of:
1 coffee pot height 21.5 x diameter 13.5 cm
1 sugar bowl height 10.5 x 11.3 x 10 cm
1 creamer height 10.7 x diameter 8 cm
12 coffee cups height 3.7 x diameter 8 cm
12 saucers diameter 11.8 cm
Rare collection set in glazed cream-colored ceramic with stylized floral profiles and decorations, thin sepia and silver lines. Feature glossy dark handles and matching lids with a small knob. Supported by three shaped feet. The items have an antique design, early to mid-20th century. Mark under the base: Schwarzenhammer Bavaria. Good condition, with slight signs of wear on the glaze on the objects. The shield-shaped mark with vertical stripes, unfilled stars and the single crown used between about 1923 and 1945, “Schwarzenhammer” above “Bavaria.” This factory was founded in 1905 by Christoph Schumann, brother of Carl Schumann I (see Porzellanfabrik Carl Schumann) and by his father-in-law Karl August Schreider, a wealthy landowner. By 1913 it already count ed 150 employees and specialized in everyday items, including many pieces in reticulated porcelain decorated in the Zwiebelmuster (“Blue Onion”) and Strohblume (“Strawflower”) styles. The company slowly expanded to about 400 employees by 1937. Nothing else is known about this company, which failed in 1984 and, after its closure in 1986, left behind an industrial ruin with many contaminated plots of land that had to be cleaned up by regional authorities with state funding between 1998 and 2005.