Rhenish Porcelain Manufactory Oberkassel

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The Rheinische Porzellan Manufaktur started production in 1861 in the Oberkassel district of the Heerdt mayor near Düsseldorf and ceased operations after 1905. AA Ducrot was one of the founders of the company and was involved in the manufacture until 1878. Although some sources indicate Oscar Erck as the operator of the company as early as 1861, the companies "Porzellanfabrik Ducrot & Co." and "Porzellanfabrik Ducrot & Kerstenne" are listed in the "Porzellanerlexikon" for the 19th century until 1879. After Ducrot & Kerstenne, C. Kerstenne took over the company on his own and then Oscar Erck under the name "Rheinische Porzellan Manufaktur O. Erck". Another operator of the porcelain manufactory was L. Herrmann as the last owner, under whom the factory was called "Rheinische Porzellan Manufaktur L. Hermann".

The location of the porcelain factory is stated in the license application from Doring & Leutheuser from 1878 for the construction of a slaughterhouse. It lay between the Oberkassel train station and the ship bridge on the Rhine. Plans of the porcelain factory are in the Düsseldorf City Archives (file XV 488).

Ducrot & Co. china factory, 1861–1877

The factory was founded by the Frenchman Alcide-André Ducrot, born around 1815 in Chantilly / Département Oise , and the merchants August Schneider and Rudolf Hocker from Krefeld under the name Ducrot & Co. Already in 1860, Alcide-André Ducrot, then Gottfried Engels, applied for a license for the establishment of the porcelain factory. In 1861 the Ducrot & Co. porcelain factory employed 30 people (17 men and 13 women).

Company letter from the porcelain factory dated March 20, 1868 to France, canceled with the railway postmark "Düsseldorf-Venlo".

Until 1869 the factory was called "Ducrot & Co." and from 1871 "AA Ducrot". In 1875 the porcelain factory had 85 workers. From 1877 Kerstenne was co-owner and the factory was called "Porzellanfabrik Ducrot & Kerstenne". 1878 After AA Ducrot left the company in 1878, the company was renamed "Porzellanfabrik Kerstenne".

Rhenish Porcelain Manufactory Oscar Erck, 1879–1882

In 1879 Oscar Erk took over the Kerstenne porcelain factory and resumed production with 80 employees. In 1880 the porcelain factory employed 200 workers and in 1880 participated in the trade exhibition in Düsseldorf.

Rheinische Porzellanmanufaktur L. Herrmann, 1882 to before 1906

In 1882 the manufacture was taken over by Louis Herrmann and the porcelain manufacture employed 78 workers. The factory was badly damaged by arson on December 29, 1890. For 1890, 78 employees were listed in the company. After the fire, production was resumed and verifiably operated until 1905. In the address book of the ceramics industry from 1906, the factory is listed as extinct.

Products

Coffee and tableware as well as household utensils were manufactured in 1875. French china clay was processed in 1882 and the technique of lithophane was also included in the program. The product range also included the production of tableware, beer mugs, lighting items, decorations in hot fire colors , e.g. B. Straw model . By using lithophane, the company was able to receive some gold medals at exhibitions. The Düsseldorf City Museum keeps a collection of images of the decors used by the porcelain factory. These are naturalistic decorative designs with branches, flowers, leaves and animals (birds and butterflies).

Factory mark

The green stamps used from 1879 to 1882 showed: A standing, left-facing lion, with the letters RPM underneath. The lion is supported by an anchor standing upright to its left. To the left of the anchor is the letter O. and to the right of the anchor there is an E. This stamp mark was also used from 1882 under L. Herrmann. Only next to the anchor were the letters “L. and H. ”is used. The latter stamp was registered by the Royal District Court of Krefeld on February 9, 1882.

literature

  • Dieter Zühlsdorf: Brand Lexicon, Porcelain and Ceramics Report 1885–1935. S. 578. Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-925369-00-7 .
  • Hans Seeling: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter Das Tor. Issue 1/1984. Düsseldorfer Porzellanfabriken, pp. 12–13.
  • Hans Seeling: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter Das Tor. Issue 6/1972. Düsseldorfer Porzellanfabriken, pp. 270–271.
  • Karl-Heinz Werner Steckelings: Shining stone: The history of the lithophany from the 18th to the 20th century, pp. 21-22, Dresden, ISBN 9783954980512

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Porzellanerlexikon , page DA-Dz. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellanlexikon.de
  2. ^ [Hans Seeling: Düsseldorfer Heimatblätter Das Tor. Issue 4/1962. Düsseldorfer Porzellanfabriken, pp. 215–217.]
  3. ↑ In: Porzellanerlexikon , S. Da-Dz.
  4. ^ [ General German Reichsadressbuch 1881. p. 657, publisher: Grevens Adressbuch-Verlag, Cologne.]
  5. ↑ [Board of the exhibition: Official catalog of the trade exhibition, third edition, Düsseldorf 1880, p. 178; Printing: M. Dumont-Schauberg in Cologne.]
  6. ^ Municipal archive Büderich: In: Zeitungsberichte / Düsseldorfer Volksblatt , December 30, 1890, p. 598.
  7. ↑ a b In: Internet article Porcelain Marks & More. PM&M
  8. ↑ baza sygnatur porcelany. Below: Oberkassel / Rheinische Porzellanmanufaktur L. Hermann 1882-1905 . [1]
  9. ↑ Stein Marks 2009-2015. In: Rheinische Porzellanmanufaktur (-Oscar Erck) then (-L. Herrmann) . [2]

Remarks

  1. ↑ Since all the names of the operators are listed in the porcelain encyclopedia under the initials of their surnames and with the company name, AA Ducrot, Christian Kerstenne, Oscar Erck and L. Herrmann were obviously active in the companies as owners. It is unlikely that Oscar Erck belonged to the owners of the company well before 1879, as there is no evidence to date. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.porzellanlexikon.de
  2. ↑ Alcide-André Ducrot said he had lived in Kalk near Cologne for about ten years. He had been director of a porcelain factory there for two years and independently operated the porcelain production for eight years. Presumably this is the Kalk porcelain factory .