Count Thun serving plate?

Hi. Is this a serving plate? On the bottom of the dish there is indentation for hand, so this tells me its a serving plate, and openings on side allow the serving item to simply slides to be served on another plate. Am i wrong? Thanks.

 

I'd have figured it for a candy dish, or for cookies/biscuits if a bit larger. Can we have the dimensions?

 

It is 8 inches long. Thanks

 

I don't think I've ever seen one that shape actually used. They just sit in china cabinets looking cute. Celery servers were generally vertical, and that shape wouldn't lend it self to use with utensils - too much chance of damaging the dish. It would work well for something like turkish delight. Someone who actually knows china will be along soon enough with the correct answer.

 

Thanks very much. Glad you mentioned Turkish delight. Did not have any long time

 

Did NOT see it was SO NICE & PRETTY from the thumbnail!!!!



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Welcome, Branka.

That person is not me, so I can only give uninformed opinions. It is the sort of thing my mother would have classified as Bavarian china, which does not guarantee it was made anywhere in Germany.

At 8" it's really rather small. It looks to me like something for making a table decoration with flowers or fruit. Could we see the indentation you believe to be a hand hold?

 

asparagus ?

 

i thought that too, but it folds over so sharply, and i couldn't match it to any asparagus trays i could find..

 

Not easy to see

 

There seems to be a mark on the bottom. A closer and bigger picture of it could help.

 

I tweaked it a bit.

 

Made in Vienna Austria is marked on the bottom. I did research on it:
Paul A. Straub & Company, Inc. (1915 until 1970)
Paul A. Straub founded his company in the year 1915 and at first concentrated on importing items manufactured at the Gräflich Thun'sche Porzellanfabrik Klösterle (in English often simply named 'Count Thun factory') from the town of Klösterle in the Austrian part of Bohemia (today Klášterec, Czech Republic). Austro Hungarian empire ended on 1918. Plate was made before that. Czekoslovakia was formed in 1918.

 

Thanks.

 

From Chris's site.

https://www.porcelainmarksandmore.com/related/usa/newyork-06/index.php

Importer mark used from around 1885 by Leonard, then Bawo & Dotter followed by Charles L. Dwenger and finally Paul A. Straub

 

Perhaps a napkin or letter holder?

 

Good ideas. Both could work. Thanks

 

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is correct that the mark was stamped on an unglazed base?

 

Correct.