Jaeger & Co Bavaria retailer Hand Painted Porcelain Mug, Porcelain Tankard, Limoges, Rosenthal

Beautifully painted porcelain mug, Signed by the artist on the bottom with the date 1912.

Wonderful gold around the rim and on the dragon handle.

Excellent condition. 110 years old!

5-5/8" tall, 3" across the lip.

Jaeger & Co:
The company was founded in 1872 as small decoration company but soon started to successfully produce its own large array of tableware, coffee- and tea sets as well as giftware. During the first retailer few years everything looked fine and even in 1897 'Jaeger, Thomas & Co.' received a brand new 90hp steam engine produced by the Maschinenfabrik, Eisengießerei und Kesselschmiede Heinrich Rockstroh, also located in Marktredwitz. But after various disputes with Jaeger regarding the product range and funding of special projects Fritz Thomas decided to leave the company and after extensive talks with Ens as potential partner finally quit in 1898, in 1903 founding the Porzellanfabrik Thomas & Ens.

Porzellanfabrik Marktredwitz, Jaeger & Co. (1898 until 1979)

Following the departure of Thomas the factory itself was slightly modernized and slowly expanded, by 1913 already employing around 400 workers. Over the years the factory flourished and even a small fire on February 9th 1923 could not hinder its progress. In the year 1930 the by then Councillor of Commerce ('Kommerzienrat') Fritz Jaeger employed 500 workers including those working in an own decoration studio in the city of München (Munich).