Swaine & Co.
Hüttensteinach and Köppelsdorf. Thuringia.
Hersteller / Manufacturer.
Swaine & Co. was founded in 1854, then in 1920, merged with Gebrüder Schoenau Co. (founded as Greiner und Künzel, in 1817) to become Porzellanfabrik Gebrüder Schoenau, Swaine & Co. o.H.G. with nine kilns produced porcelain, electrical engineering, utility and luxury tableware. They were unsuccessfully taken to court by the Royal Delft Pottery for producing a range of Delftware, marking it Delph. They did however stop using the Delph mark. After around 1930 they ceased producing domestic wares and were only involved in industrial ceramics, in both factories.
In 1953, the company was nationalised and renamed VEB Sonneberg Porzellanfabrik. Closed ca. 1990.
They made items for the Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk A.G.
The following designers either designed the pottery for Swaine & Co. or put their decoration on standard pieces:
Theodor (Herrmann) Schmuz-Baudiss
Reference: Hüttensteinach
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 Post 1920 porcelain stein #6
decorated in "cornflower" blue and white. Lithophane forming the base of the featured stein #6.
Impressed and ink filled mark.
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 Pre 1920 porcelain stein
decorated in "cornflower" blue and white. Basemark on featured stein above showing crossed pipes, together with Shonau Co. Hüttensteinach, dated <1920 pre merger.
Marks taken from the base of a
Delft style ornamental watering can.
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