Set of six breakfast plates as an addition of the well-known Nutroma - Mitterteich Clock tableware

Set of six breakfast plates as an addition of the well-known Nutroma - Mitterteich Clock tableware

• Manufacturer: Nutroma - Mitterteich Porzellan
• Date of manufacture: 1970s

Description
Set of six vintage breakfast plates, part of the famous Nutroma Clock Tableware, produced by the company Mitterteich Porzellan. The breakfast plates show various chair clocks from 1707, 1728, 1740, 1765, 1775 and 1850.

Chair clocks are typical Dutch clocks, which were mainly manufactured in Holland, Groningen, Twente and Friesland from the beginning of the 17th century.

1. Signed Hendrik van Heilbron, Almelo. Several timepieces are known from this watchmaker, who was also a physician. This clock has a verge escapement. Image Chair clock around 1740.
2. Of Groningen origin. Very extensive dial for that time with moon phase, date, hours, minutes and alarm. Has verge escapement and striking mechanism with striker plate. Image Chair clock anno 1707.
3. Attributed to Jurriaan Greven, Winsum. His chair clocks are easily recognizable by the specific characteristics of this watchmaker. Image Chair clock around 1765.
4. Signed Paulus Jans, clockmaker in Drachten. The construction of the beautifully maintained timepiece is entirely based on Groningen. Image Chair clock anno 1728.
5. Signed ekb as a painter's mark on the back of the dial. Possibly from the clockmaker Engele Klazes Bouma from Joure. Image Bell chair about 1775.
6. Characteristic 19th-century chair clock made by Folkert Aleva. With moon phase and date display. Spindle escapement and striking mechanism with striker plate. Image Chair clock around 1850.

Nice set in combination with the cake plates from this series. See last photo (pastry plates not included!).

Condition
This set of six cake plates is in good vintage condition. Normal traces of use and age-related traces of wear, some letters may be somewhat faded. No damage. Photos are part of the description.

Size

• Diameter: 20 cm.

Nutroma
For years Nutroma and Friesche Vlag were competitors when it comes to coffee creamer. Nutroma now falls under the umbrella brand Friesche Vlag.

Mitterteich is a municipality in the German state of Bavaria, located in the Landkreis Tirschenreuth. The city has 6,630 inhabitants.

In 1886 Ludwig Lindner founded a porcelain factory there. Now this company is called Porzellanfabrik Mitterteich AG. The porcelain brand Mitterteich is internationally known for its hotel porcelain. Tirschenreuth has held the title of the city since 1932.

The Nutroma clock crockery tableware
Who doesn't remember it? The cosy coffee crockery tableware with images of traditional clocks. It was released in the 1970s by Nutroma Coffee Creamer and was produced by Mitterteich Porzellan. The images and captions were provided by the renowned clock expert and author Jaap Zeeman.

The tableware consists primarily of a coffee pot, a milk jug and a sugar bowl along with six different cups and saucers. On both sides of the high coffee pot is a frontal image of a stately Dutch grandfather clock from 1750. The sugar bowl shows a Brabant clock from 1780 and the milk jug shows a skipper from 1820.

The coffee cups are decorated with images of a chair clock from 1750, a Frisian short tail from 1820, a Zaan clock from 1710, an Overijssel Ruempolk clock from 1750 and an Amsterdammertje from 1760. The only non-Dutch clock on this tableware is the lantern clock in the year 1640, as it appeared in England and France.

The crockery can be expanded with breakfast plates and a presentation set, consisting of a large plate and six small saucers. The breakfast plates show various chair clocks from 1707, 1728, 1740, 1765, 1775 and 1850. The large cake plate offers a view of a Twente chair clock from 1779, signed by CW Bakker Goor, while the pastry saucers bear the same images as the cups.

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