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ROSENTHAL NAZI TEA POT
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A SPECTACULAR
WHITE NAZI
TEA POT BY
ROSENTHAL
PORZELLAN
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| Rosenthal Porcelain was perhaps the premier producer of high-quality porcelain table articles during the Third Reich of Adolf Hitler. The company produced a wide range, from dinner plates and serving pieces to cups and saucers, and they even made electrical insulators for power lines. |
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| The piece we offer here is a pure white .4 liter tea pot with lid that was once part of the table service in an Officer’s Mess Hall, a Nazi Party Kasino, or some other official facility. For all we know, it may have been used in the Reichskanzlei or even in Hitler’s Berghof on the Obersalzberg above Berchtesgaden.
The tea pot is about 4-1/2 inches tall and 4 inches in diameter and weighs about 1 pound.
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| The bottom is well-marked: the Rosenthal crown logo and the Deutsche Arbeitsfront (DAF or German Labor Front) logo encircled by the words MODELL DES AMTES SCHÖNHEIT DER ARBEIT (Approved Model of the Office of Beauty of Labor) are applied in green under the glaze. There is also a number 0,40 under the glaze. |
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| The Office of Schönheit der Arbeit of the DAF decided what constituted kitsch (trash) in Germany and what constituted good industrial design. |
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| This simple but elegant style of plain white porcelain was considered to be the classic form by the DAF, and firms that produced it were allowed to use the MODELL DES AMTES SCHÖNHEIT DER ARBEIT cogged wheel and swastika logo as a seal of approval.
The pot has just two tiny chips. One almost invisible along the top edge and another on the inside of the bottom rim. The rest of the pot is smooth as it can be. A rare piece of classic Nazi porcelain in very good condition.
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