LOT 177:
ROYAL DUX 17cm Dia BOWL DECORATED WITH A BAND OF LEAVES And FLOWERS ON A DARK BLUE GROUND And TOPPED WITH A CIRCLE ...
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ROYAL DUX 17cm Dia BOWL DECORATED WITH A BAND OF LEAVES And FLOWERS ON A DARK BLUE GROUND And TOPPED WITH A CIRCLE OF BUTTERFLIES (Acorn Inside Triangle Backstamp For 1918/58 .
(The Dux (Duchcov) factory was established in 1853. Seven years passed without apparent successes. The firm just produced utility porcelain. In 1860 it was bought by Eduard Eichler. The new owner named it Eduard Eichler Thonwaren-Fabrik. The factory started to imitate designs by Copenhagen, Worcester and Sevrés. They were succesful winning even Silver Medal at the Paris exhibition.
Eduard Eichler died in 1887. Next three years the company was run by his widow. Her son-in-law, Wilhelm Hans, bought it in 1890. He further developed the factory and in 1897 tarnsformed it into a stock corporation (Duxer Porzellanmanufaktur A.G.).
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