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Porcelain marks identification
With Porcelain marks identification, Limoges and Dresden can name production or decorating centres rather than one company.
Factory and decoration marks
An underglaze factory mark can accompany an overglaze decorating-studio stamp. Limoges and Dresden can name production or decorating centres rather than one company. On Chinese porcelain a four- or six-character reign mark names a reign.
What to check next
Separate impressed model numbers from painted decoration numbers. Compare the foot, glaze and complete emblem with the marked maker’s forms. A red reign mark and a blue factory emblem require different reference groups.
Related marks
8,542 marks
c. 1911–1920
Wm Guérin & Co. / J. Pouyat
Both Guérin and Pouyat names place this after the 1911 combination.
c. 1913–1928
Moorcroft
Full painted signature with impressed BURSLEM separates this early independent format from Macintyre Florian Ware and the later royal stamp.
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Undated
Rochard Limoges
Separated uppercase ROCHARD above a four-line hand-painted inscription, with painter code at lower right.
c. 1950–1983
Royal Worcester
A single large W replaces the crown and 51 emblem; the coddler-specific PORCELAIN wording sits below the circle.
1911–1921
Morimura Brothers / associated Nippon Toki Kaisha production
Central M within a wreath, not a maple leaf.
Undated
Johann Haviland / Waldershof successor brand
Crown above Bavaria and a separate Germany line; differs from the crowned-monogram example.
From 2000
Gebrüder Winterling group / successor brand
Blue floral emblem with Indischblau and Winterling; no Bavarian works town in the inscription.
Undated
Crown Potteries Company, formerly Crown Pottery Company
Small crown above abbreviated initials; no full company name or USA line.
c. 1985–2000
Lladró
Separate circular Society issue mark; count is for the roundel, not another example of the accompanying modern factory stamp.
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