The districts Scheibe and Alsbach are located in the Schwarza valley in Thuringia. The production of porcelain started here in 1835. Around 1850, high-quality, large complicated statues and busts of historical figures such as Mozart, Bach … In 1863, the company was taken over by Fridolin Kister, who mainly focused on the further production of figures. In 1890 the production is further expanded with soldiers and generals from the time of Napoleon. Figures are also made in the style of Watteau. In 1905 the factory is converted into a stock partnership. In 1972 the factory is incorporated into a VEB (Vereinigte Zierporzellanwerke) under state control of the former East Germany. Like the statues of the other manufactories, the statues of Scheibe-Alsbach are always made by hand. After German reunification in 1990, the factory becomes a subsidiary of the Seltmann group. Today, together with Unterweissbach and Plaue, it forms a joint venture Tettau GmbH in Rudolstadt near Volkstedt.

The object shown is a very beautiful lovely overglaze polychrome hand-painted and molded porcelain figure of a putto (angel with wings) with blue eyes sitting on a rock and drawing with paint brushes in a book. The rock and its color box lie on a podium-shaped square plinth with green color merging into the white glazed pâte on which a frieze of geometric motifs can be seen. At the bottom, the foot is edged with a gold-plated trim. At the bottom the base ring is unglazed, but in the depth it is closed, and thus appears to be pressed into the mold. It also shows the underglaze cobalt blue mark of an “S” pierced by two lines, this one representing Scheibe-Alsbach, and which was used around 1962.

Condition: paint brush broken off in the hand (almost invisible), otherwise perfect.