Danish Faience Jewelry Dish Vide-Poche Catchall

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*Two shown, one has sold, one still available - see images 2 through 5 for available dish.

An early to … Read more *Two shown, one has sold, one still available - see images 2 through 5 for available dish.

An early to mid-20th century Danish Faience ceramic pottery vanity jewelry vide-poche square dish, from Denmark. Each dish has an internal band in brick red or dark orange and gold trim. With maker's marks 'Aluminia Faience' and 'Royal Copenhagen Porcelain', potters marks and number as shown in last two images. There're two (2) available, each sold separately as per listing. Colors include a very light grey glazed pottery, gold and brick red.

Measures: 5.38" x 5.38" square

The Aluminia Faience factory date its history to the year 1862 founded by August Schiøttt (1834 - 1863). In 1868 Philip Schou took over the factory and moved the production to Frederiksberg. In 1882 he bought the Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Manufactory and the two companies merged to one. The production of faience lived its own quite life in the shadow of the blooming interest for industrial production of porcelain at Royal Copenhagen. But the period from 1901 - 1928 became a new period of success under the artistic input from Chr. Joachim (1870-1943) and Harald Slott-Møller (1864-1937). They crated the important works of Danish Skonvirke in the coloristic Art faience of Aluminia. Later Nils Thorsson took the manufactory into the new and final era in the period 1928-1969. See less