Czech Teplitz Reticulated Vase Gold Birds Dragon Handles Stellmacher c 1859 – 1894

Antiques : Ceramics, Porcelain : German

$550 USD
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This porcelain vase is gorgeous. It is a Czech Bohemian vase, Austria, Turn-Teplitz, and the maker is Alfred Stellmacher. The age is 19th century, circa 1859 to 1894.

The vase is 14” high, 4 7/8” long and 3 3/8” wide.

The piece is partially glazed and partially unglazed (or colored bisque.) The oval front and back are glazed a rare color, a teal, or blue-green, that is unusual from this time period. The round foot has raised designs and is colored bisque. The sides are bisque. The long neck has two areas of reticulation. The underside is glazed an off-white. The inside is not glazed.

Over the teal glaze are beautiful birds in raised gold, all hand painted. There is a spider web and flowers on long stems. Two of the blossoms have large dots of white enamel for their centers. The back has more leaves and foliage in heavy rich raised gold.

The handles are dragons, or snakes, with scales as part of the mold. The upper part of the handles meets the lower part of the neck of the vase, where there is reticulation. The heads are painted in gold.

The vase is quite stunning, and obviously what later Amphora pieces were based on.

There are no chips, cracks or crazing. There are brown lines in the bisque, which is part of the coloring and are not age lines. There is some gold wear, mostly on the back, on the raised porcelain that accents the teal glaze. There is a little bit of roughness on the tips of the protruding parts of the handles, but no nicks can be seen through a magnifying glass.

The inside of the vase has estate dirt and needs cleaning. The outside of the vase it is difficult to tell because of the brown coloring.

There are three marks on the underside. The first mark, though difficult to read, is an oval circle containing the words Alfred Stellmacher Turn and ending with a banner containing the word Teplitz. The second mark is a dark symbol containing the monogram of A and S. The third mark is 15.

There is also an impressed number of 142.

Item ID: RL-218