Symbol guide
Eagle porcelain mark
For an eagle porcelain mark, imperial-style devices can be accompanied by a cipher, while trade marks can include an ordinary company name.
Separating the recorded variants
Distinguish a single-headed eagle from a double-headed eagle and from an eagle inside a shield. Imperial-style devices can be accompanied by a cipher, while trade marks can include an ordinary company name.
What to check next
Compare the complete maker examples below, including the mark technique and the position of every letter. A painted decorator initial outside a factory emblem and a letter inside the emblem can have different owners and purposes.
Related marks
363 marks
c. 1800–1999
Volkstedt
The printed mark is placed at the end of the 19th or beginning of the 20th century.
Undated
Laughlin Brothers / Homer Laughlin China Company
Elaborate crowned coat of arms with supporters, between arched PORCELAINE GRANITE and LAUGHLIN BROS below. This is not the later eagle-over-lion device.
1906–1935
Carl Scheidig / Gräfenthal successor
Arrow beneath the bird and small initials below; lacks the later geometric chest monogram.
c. 1876
John Moses / Glasgow Pottery, Trenton
American eagle rather than the British lion and unicorn; the 1876 catalogue association applies to this white-granite example. Similar 1878 eagle is not counted as a second family.
Undated
Joseph Clementson
The diamond records registration of the Claremont pattern on 30 June 1856; it is not a mark-use interval.
Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych SAMaker name
1847
Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych SA
Altwasser (Stary Zdrój)
This version with a more stylized type of eagle was only used in . Note the overdone lower serife of the "T"
Compare the maker’s other marks
C.T. AltwasserVolkstedtHomer LaughlinPorzellanfiguren Gräfenthal GmbHSèvresGoldscheiderImperial porcelain plantGlasgow PotteryCmielowDavenport PotteryWalbrzychJoseph ClementsonBerlinGardner plantFabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych SARigaKuznetsov plantKuznetsovI.E. Kuznetsov factoryKPM BerlinM.S. Kuznetsov plantFrancis Morley (& Co)AnsbachMarkredtwitz JaegerRoyal BonnZeller Keramik Manufaktur GmbH & Co. KGParowa TiefenfurtUnknown brandsPainting institutionGorodnitskaya factoryPetrus Regout MaastrichtChodziezHorodnitsa (Gorodnitsa)M. Mather factoryW Baker & CoDresdenDunashevs’ factoryElbogen KämpfHenry Alcock & Co (Ltd)KristerWilhelmsburgKirovJohn Meir & SonSeltmmann WeidenBauscher Weiden markKönigszelt KarolinaMZ AustriaLettin porcelainPodmore, Walker & CoStanowitz StriegauStriegauer Porzellanfabrik AGBareuther WaldsassenKornilov brothers plantM.S. Kuznetsov factoryBudyAuerbach plantGzhelJohn GoodwinMarkovs factoryCork & EdgeDomna Barmina plantformer Pirkenhammer Brezovaformer Tiefenfurt ParowaGrafenthalKornilov BrothersVolkstedt-RudolstadtWloclawekCockson & ChetwyndElkin & KnightRudolstadt StraussSara YoungWashington Pottery LtdPinder Bourne & HopeT Elsmore & SonAssociation of production of porcelain andCaryn FriedFactory of Barmin brothersJoseph Schachtel Sophienau ZofiówkaKrautheim & AdelbergM. Kurinov factoryOlevskPlant of Barmin brothersSchumann MoabitStamps of different tradingWayne Reynolds, Caryn Fried, North Eagle PotteryAnnaburgBayrische Ostmark markSchmeisserSontag & SöhneT MayerYemelyanov plantZofiowka near StrzegomCavan GonzalesJavorina SilesianKaren Abeita