Symbol guide
Star pottery mark
Star pottery mark appears on Stoke-on-Trent earthenware and porcelain from England, United Kingdom, with a mark period of 1833–1846.
Related marks
320 marks
Undated
Simon & Halbig
incised · porcelain · Germany
Combined head-producer and customer stamp: Simon & Halbig supplied the head; K R with star identifies Kämmer & Reinhardt. Any faint lower mould or size number is untranscribed.
c. 1800–1999
Kahla
The source places this mark at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century.
c. 1763–1900
Wallendorf
Source states use from the factory’s foundation in 1763–1764 until the beginning of the twentieth century.
Separating the recorded variants
A star above a full company name differs from a star joined to a letter or within a shield. Ginori records include a golden star, while other factories use printed or painted devices in different arrangements.
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.
Compare the maker’s other marks
MeissenCapodimonteDelftVolkstedtSimon & HalbigDulevoSèvresImperial porcelain plantThomasKahlaDerbyGrimwades LtdWallendorfGrimwade BrosStoke-on-TrentNymphenburgGinoriFaenzaWorcesterCastelliGeroldSchönwaldNaplesRouenGardner plantUrbinoMarseillesVeniceAmsterdamStrasbourgRigaLimbachKloster-VeilsdorfKuznetsov plantIlmenauKuznetsovI.E. Kuznetsov factoryM.S. Kuznetsov plantChudovoMetzler & OrtloffVincennesNeversAnthony Shaw (& Son) (& Co)ProletariyJ H Weatherby & Sons (Ltd)Jackson & GoslingOrleansPetrus Regout MaastrichtRauensteinSavonaTournaiM. Mather factoryDresdenElizabeth Woodman Betty WoodmanRedonLe NoveSwinnertons LtdCastelduranteCharles Allerton & SonsKirovMilanReinhold MerkelbachUpper Hanley Pottery CoLanternierSorau CarstensTerekhov and Kiselev factoryDocciaFactory of YakovLettin porcelainParagon China LtdThe plant in BarashiDoccia near FlorenceElite LimogesHertel JacobJenny MendesM.S. Kuznetsov factoryPowell, Bishop & StonierPrice Bros (Burslem) LtdTulowice / TillowitzKuzyaevskyMellor, Taylor & CoGzhelSamuel Brostofsky Sascha BrastoffT Rathbone & CoAlfred Fenton & SonsFactory of Kozlov brothersformer Eichwald Dubyformer Tiefenfurt ParowaLichteName tags similar to Meissen’s:PotschappelStar China CoAnnette LowderAntique potteryEhren ToolLe Nove near Bassano