Stamped/impressed potters’ marks in CERAMICA CH
Makers’ marks of different shapes stamped (impressed) into the surfaces of ceramic objects while still wet. Such marks were typically used on refined white earthenware, stoneware and porcelain, but were almost never seen on faience and only rarely on manually produced earthenware up to the end of the 19th century. From a functional point of view, stamped potters’ marks were mainly intended to show where the products were made. Individual numbers or letters, however, can sometimes denote different sizes (size marks), identify which lid belongs to which vessel (pairing marks) or point to a particular potter. Potters would have been paid a piece rate.
Translation Sandy Haemmerle
German: Blindmarken
French: marques estampées, marques au poinçon, marques en creux, marques pressées
