Saucer with holly design
Catalog #
1985.236.001
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Saucer, with holly leaves and berries around the edge. White background. Pottery stamp reads Silesia.Research shows that this saucer was made by Porcelain Manufactory Hermann Ohme, a factory in business in Nieder Salzbrunn, Silesia, Germany (now Szczawienko, Poland) from 1882 to 1930. Ohme had a decorating studio in Waldenburg, Germany. The factory made dinner sets, household, hotel, and decorative porcelain for the European and U.S. market. The company concentrated on export porcelain after 1913, but went bankrupt in 1930 during the Great Depression. The mark includes the letter �O� above a fancy letter �H.� Variations of this mark were used. It was used with �Silesia� beneath it from 1900 to 1920. Donated by Helen Coyle.