This sweet Bavarian porcelain creamer has three features that really appeal - a cameo image of a little bare naked cherub playing a triangle sitting on a tree branch, rusty and white lusterware finish and gold accents and a full 10 oz. capacity. Really quite unique and eye catching. I could see it with a small poesy of flowers on the kitchen shelf, or on the coffee bar with your favorite cream.

The bottom is marked Schaller Bavaria with a center crest in a soft red stamp. My research tells me this was used between 1909 and 1918.

This creamer is in excellent condition. No chips or cracks or crazing and the finish is very nice on the piece. There is some rubbing of the gilded top edge, especially around the spout. The rust colored lusterware finish has some spots where it has more of the base white porcelain showing through along the bottom edge. The paint on the gold hand is super shiny!

The back story on the Schaller company I found is as follows:

Porzellanfabrik Oscar Schaller & Co. (1882 until 1917)
The company was founded in the year 1882 by the businessman Oscar Schaller. In 1917 the company was taken over by the Gebrüder Winterling O.H.G. in Röslau (Bavaria) and renamed to Oscar Schaller & Co. Nachfolger. The upward trend was so promising that they bought and converted the textile factory Kirchenlamitz (Upper Franconia, Bavaria) in 1920 and took over the company Porzellanfabrik Eduard Haberländer in Windischeschenbach (Upper Palatinate, Bavaria) in 1929. All these subsidiaries were kept under the name of Oscar Schaller & Co. Nachfolger. In 1938 the group also took over the Triptiser Porzellanfabrik A.G. (Triptis, Thuringia) that remained a standalone factory for the next years until its expropriation and partial nationalization in 1947 which was completed after the founding of East Germany in 1949. In 1950 the company was changed to corporation status and gave out shares; the family members being the main shareholders. All daughter companies were re-named to Gebrüder Winterling A.G. and the marks used up until then were changed. After the bankruptcy of the Gebrüder Winterling A.G. in November 2000, the facility and mark were taken over by the Triptis Porzellan G.m.b.H. & Co. K.G. located in Triptis (Thuringia). But the Triptis management had bitten off more than they could chew. Confronted with large scaled financial problems, Triptis themselves went insolvent on October 7th 2004 and had to file for bankruptcy a month later. In June 2005 the Triptis company was refounded as Neue Porzellanfabrik Triptis G.m.b.H. and continued business, please view the Triptis entry for further info.

Dimensions:

3 3/4" tall
4 1/2" wide from spout to handle
2 1/4" diameter at base
10 oz. capacity