Chinese Porcelain Blue and White Candle Stick Holders

Both stand 5 1/4" tall. Would anyone know how old these might be?

 

It looks inspired by Royal Copenhagen "strawflower" blue porcelain. I don't know if Chinese or European, but the potties will know.

 

Several somewhat similar ones on this Norwegian site:

https://www.finn.no/recommerce/forsale/item/456049169

"Lysestake" means candlestick, "stråmønster" means straw pattern.

 

Thanks for the link Any.

 

Debora, close but not a match. My flowers are not filled in. The border on your plate is more V shaped when mine is a U shape. The guy who was running the estate sale seems to think Chinese.

 

It is the strawflower or strawbloom pattern but the quality is not as good as the "big guys." However, they don't look Chinese made to me. Just my musings.

 

The pattern and style would certainly make one think Royal Copenhagen. They are , I think,far too restrained to be Chinese exportware. They always overdecorated everything IMHO. The lines are rather bold and a bit OTT to be Danish I think. However, could they perhaps be German, Dresden area, and in the Danish style?

 

Several German manufacturers make/made strawflower porcelain, although rarely as nice as Royal Copenhagen.

 

Thanks Kent, The Blacksmith and Any. This is exhausting

 

Just call them European porcelain strawflower motif candlesticks, I'm sure that will be fine.

 

My grandparents, who were Danish and lived in Copenhagen, had Royal Copenhagen porcelain dinner service, and enough for twelve people, with all the side plates, coffee cups and saucers, coffee pots, milk jugs, tureens and all the rest. They bought a piece every month 'til they had the complete set. They used it every single day, and I remember it well. Unfortunately, when my grand mother passed it was found that the sixty years of continued use hadn't been kind to the service, and so very little was saved.
I have promised myself to buy a set for myself (Just enough for me!), but with a single dinner plate costing from about 1700,- Dkk (ca. $150), this may take some time!
The above said, when I was in Dresden over forty years back, I wanted to buy my neighbour a cup and saucer, as he was German and came from Dresden. However, even then, and this was East Germany remember, a single simple white cup and saucer with a simple gold line was the equivalent of £240! Unfortunately, he didn't get the cup and saucer.

 

My parents had the Royal Copenhagen strawflower dinner plates, which they used daily. Of course in due course some of them were broken, and others had cracks.

Our family loved Denmark, we went there every autumn holiday when I was a child. Turns out I am part Danish too, which we didn't know at the time. Through the Danish line also part Swedish and even Norwegian, from the Trondheim area. My ancestors certainly got around.

 

Kan du tale dansk?

I love Denmark, and have done so since I was a little boy, and have always thought of it as 'home', even though I have never actually lived there! I often wonder what I am doing living in Norway and not Denmark, that said, I love it here and have lived here for nearly thirty years now.
If Norway play Denmark, then I am afraid I support Denmark!

 

Only a few words. One of the first things we were taught to say to our hosts, friends of our parents: tak for måltidet. Cornlower plates may or may not have been involved.

 

See? We are related!

 

God dag fra Canada. Well, Denmark ruled Norway for a while...

 

I knew it!

 

Indeed it did, uptil 1814. Then Sweden took over............... Norway as an independant country dates from 17th May 1905. Norway goes slightly mad on 17th May!
God dag til Canada også! Norway reminds me very much of Canada, mountains, lots of trees...and of course, nice people!

 

I have half Norwegian ancestry as many members here know. And you're quite right -- if you've ever visited the coast of British Columbia, it is very similar to Norway. I recall my grandparents talking about the "syttende mai" and how important it was to Norwegians.