Silver plate tureen?

Last metal item if the day. Not sure how to describe it other than a tureen? It has 45cl on it so must be intended for liquid. Also there is a spoon slot in the lid. Quite badly tarnished but it is starting to polish up quite nicely. Diameter is 13cm to give some perspective.

 

You can decipher and date the mark here:
https://www.ascasonline.org/windowMARZ94.html

That site is not phone friendly so I will leave it to somebody with a bigger and better screen.

 

There are a couple of articles about the company at the ASCAS site
https://www.ascasonline.org/articoloMARZ155.html
https://www.ascasonline.org/windowmarz94.html

The mark ORIGINAL WELLNER seems to have been in use 1927-1934

Looks Jugendish as a style to me. Sugar bowl or for jam?

 

At 13cm it's too tiny for a bowl to serve soups. It could be a piece of hotel silverplate that had a glass liner. Then it would be brought to the table holding just a single serving. Or a sauce for something else.

 

Re 45 cl — anything you can pour, like sugar and flour, is often measured in centiliters and desiliters in e.g. recipes, at least in Scandinavia. I assume that goes for Germany as well.

 

Thank you. Nice umlaut. Is gut jah

 

Very true. Posh sugar bowl maybe...

 

Okay cool.

 

Thanks for the links. I have been polishing it and it does seem very much like silver. The information discusses the alloy used as a base and this would explain why it looks very silver like.

 

Thanks for the link. Sorry I've been reading replies in reverse order for some strange reason.

 

It has scrubbed up quite well.

 

*gasp* what a difference.

 

Looking at the time of my first post it took quite a while. It was worth it though.