THREE TURKISH EXPORT EASTERN EUROPEAN POTTERY PLATES WITH OTTOMAN MOTIFS
Prussia (Poland) and Ukraine made for the Turkish export market, ca. 1900 - 1930

Comprising a Carl Tielsch porcelain covered serving dish (sahan) with pink scalloped rim, transfer-printed with floral sprays and decorated with a large moulded gilt rose finial, stamped on the base wih the maker's mark in blue (Eagle, Crown, and C.T. Initials) in use between 1880 - 1909 in the Prussian Alwasser factory in Silesia (modern-day Poland) and inventory numbers, the interior of the lid with similar markings; a pottery plate decorated with alternating crescents and stars on a turquoise ground and central crescent-star medallion, with a fainted almond-shaped stamp on the base; and another plate with floral tulip and lotus spray border in pink and green surrounding the Turkish symbol of red crescent and star in the middle, marked to reverse ВСЕУКРТРЕСТ (All-Ukrainian Trust - the common name of Budy Faience Factory ‘Sickle and Hammer’ in Kharkiv region), indicating Soviet-era production for the Turkish market.

23.5cm, 24.5cm, and 22.3cm diameters respectively

In the mid-1920s, the faience factory of Budy, also known as Faience Factory ‘Sickle and Hammer’, became the largest factory of the Ukrainian Kharkiv district. After the end of the First World War (WWI) and the resumption of trade with Turkey, the USSR Trade Mission concluded a manufacturing agreement on porcelain and faience tableware with Turkey and Egypt. One of the main suppliers was indeed the Budy Faience Factory among others. The stamp on the back of our plate (ВСЕУКРТРЕСТ, ФАРФ ФАЯНС СТЕКЛО, СЕРП И МОЛОТ БУД. З, РЕГ. У.Н.Х. №250) was in use between 1920s and 1930s. The floral and vegetal motifs are inspired by Ottoman and Turkish pottery designs mainly because a significant part of Kuznetsov’s production was oriented to the export markets of Asian and Islamic countries.