Bareuther - Bavaria - Dinner set for 6 (18) - Porcelain

Beautiful porcelain dinner service produced in Germany by Bareuther at the end of the twentieth century.

Each piece of the service is decorated on the lip with raised stripes and, along the edge, with a refined gold contour line.

Factory mark in green on the back.

The service is complete for 6 people and consists of:
6 dinner plates
6 soup plates
6 appetizer or dessert plates

The service is in excellent condition.

The Bareuther ceramics factory was founded in Waldsassen in 1866 by Johann Mathäus Riess, who had gained experience at the C.M. Hutschenreuther factory. He died a year later and the business was taken over by his son Johann Riess. The new owner started porcelain production in 1875.

The factory faced financial difficulties and in 1884 it was sold to Wilhelm Schreider. Already in 1885 it was sold again. This time the new owners were Max Jena, Ernst Ploß and Oskar Bareuther. The new name of the company was Porzellanfabrik Jena, Bareuther & Co. When Max Jena left the business in 1887, it was renamed again and until 1904 operated under the name Porzellanfabrik Bareuther & Co.

At the beginning of the century, the factory earned an excellent reputation. In 1904 it was transformed into a joint-stock company. In 1930 it employed about 700 workers. Unfortunately, it was almost completely destroyed during World War II. Nevertheless, it took on many of the employees of Porzellanfabrik Königszelt A.G., forced to leave Silesia following the proclamation of the region as Polish territory. In 1949 the factory became fully operational again. In 1969 it merged with Gareis, Kühnl & Cie. and continued production as Porzellanfabrik Waldsassen Bareuther & Co. A.G. Like most German porcelain producers, in the 1980s and 1990s the factory had to compete with low-cost overseas production. In 1994 it went bankrupt.