A pink rose, an orange tulip, and a scatter of violet, blue, and yellow blooms — all sitting on a ribbed porcelain body that's been quietly holding sugar since sometime between 1934 and 1949.
JLMenau Graf Von Henneberg Porcelain traces its roots to 1777 in Ilmenau, Thuringia — one of Germany's oldest and most storied porcelain regions. This sugar bowl, backstamped with the Graf Von Henneberg mark used between 1934 and 1949, is a piece of that long history in miniature. The ribs run along the lower two-thirds of the bowl and repeat on the lid, giving the form a sculptural quality that sets it apart from smooth-bodied contemporaries. Gold accents the rim and lid finial. Pattern listed as HEP1 on Replacements.com; an embossed number (possibly 015) appears on the base.
Small and genuinely lovely — the kind of sugar bowl that earns a permanent place on a breakfast tray. A thoughtful gift paired with a special flavored sugar or a pretty silver spoon, and a welcome find for collectors of interwar German porcelain.
