Riessner Stellmacher & Kessel - Eduard Stellmacher - Figurka - Lady wearing mens clothing - Elfenbeinporzellan

Largely, rare porcelain porcelain figure, Elfenbeinporzellan, depicting a young lady in a masculine role.

Unique and unfindable piece. 47x17x5cm
In general good condition. Some chips were restored.

Eduard Stellmacher studied at the Dresden Academy of Arts and Crafts and was artistic director of RSt&K. Eduard's brother and classmate Paul Dachsel was also a creative designer.

Turn-Teplitz was a clay-rich area and there were more than 30 pottery makers, but thanks to their ingenuity and creativity, RSt&K stood out above the rest. Alfred's overall goal was to create artistic, rather than functional, pieces, and most of them were marked "Amphorae"; In the mid-1890s, his pottery began to be known as Amphora and the company became known colloquially as Amphora Porcelain Works. Its products are the result of an invention by Alfred himself called Elfenbeinporzellan (ivory porcelain) for its soft yellow color and matte finish. Early works emulated the predominant Orientalist and Neo-Baroque styles, but in the late 1890s they began to exhibit Art Nouveau influences in their sinuous lines, curvilinear forms, and whimsical, natural motifs. RSt&K's output was recognized for its remarkable combination of stylistic diversity with a high standard of quality.

It exhibited at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and received numerous awards from that year until 1904, while expanding its reach and opening new locations in Hungary and Germany. Paul Dachsel and Eduard Stellmacher founded the company in 1904 to open their own companies and RSt&K would never again match the superior work they had created before their departure. The Golden Age of Amphora pottery effectively ended in the end, although the company continued to operate until it was nationalized by the Czechoslovak government in 1945.