1819 Marx & Gutherz ~ Carlsbad China ~ Coffee / Tea Pot with Cream & Sugar Pink

Description

Very nice China -
no Chips Cracks or Crazing - Carlsbad china is named after a city in Czechoslovakia, which hoses the factories that made this fine porcelain.   Today Carlsbad has several factories located in Austria, Germany and Bavaria.    g  Many pieces have been exported to the United States, including but not limited to bowls, plates, platters, and biscuit jars from as early as the 1800's and the early 1900's.
Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) – Sister City of Carlsbad California is a spa city situated in western Bohemia, Czech Republic, on the confluence of the rivers Ohre and Teplá, near Prague. It became a famous healing center for European aristocrats and maintains its fame as a spa city to this day.
The connection between Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) and it’s Sister City of Carlsbad California is the water. In 1883 it was discovered that the water in Carlsbad, California was found to have remarkably similar mineral properties to Karlovy Vary and in honor of this connection our city was named Carlsbad.
Frazier’s well (The orgin of Carlsbad Water), now a state historical site at Alt Carlsbad, features a statue of Frazier sculpted by former Karlovy Vary Mayor Vaclav Lokvenc. Karlovy Vary retains its forested and mountainous grandeur, old-world elegance and china, gem and glass industries. We established the Sister City relationship with our namesake city in 1991.
It is named after King of Bohemia and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, who founded the city in 1370. It is historically famous for its hot springs.
In the 14th century Czech King Charles IV was often riding his horse around the mountains near Karlsbad.
Thanks to a chance his retinue one time apparently discovered the hot spring, to which the emperor soon attributed its curative power. He convinced himself about it with his own skin. Using the water from the spring he was able to heal his injured leg. According to a legend he ordered to build a town around the miraculous spring, which because of its springs still thrives and enjoys the fame far beyond the borders of our country.
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First, you should know that Lina Gutherz, the sister of Oscar Gutherz
(the maker of this teapot)
married Nathan Straus, the son of the Lazarus Straus, the American importer who financially supported her brother’s porcelain business. This piece of information, which we found on
Geni
, was pivotal to understanding the rest of the story.
Lazarus Straus
(the father of Nathan who would marry Lina, the sister to Oscar the teapot maker)
immigrated to the United States from Germany in 1852 and settled in Georgia. After peddling wares to families with a cart, he opened a dry goods store. The success of his store made it possible to bring his wife and children, which included 4-year old Nathan, over to America.
The Civil War disseminated Lazarus’ business so he moved with his family to New York and began his porcelain import business. His sons joined him and it was on a business trip abroad that Nathan met Lina
(sister to Oscar the teapot maker)
, instantly fell in love, and married. Nathan returned to America with his new bride.
Lazarus Straus & Sons, after renting the basement of Macy’s department store in New York City to sell their imported porcelain, eventually became partners with RH Macy. In 1887 Nathan and his brother, Isidor
(brother-in-law to Lina, the sister to Oscar the teapot maker)
, bought Macy’s. There’s so much history about this American department store we couldn’t include it in this post except for this little bit. Macy’s star logo was chosen because the original owner, RH Macy, had it tattooed on him when he worked on a Nantucket whaling ship as a teenager. You have to love this!
In 1912 Isidor and his wife
(in-laws to Oscar who made the teapot)
bought tickets to sail on the Titanic. Alas, they were not on the survivor’s list.
Nathan and Lina’s son, Nathan, Jr.
(the grandson of Oscar the teapot maker)
attended Princeton and then went overseas to study at Heidelberg University in 1908. He befriended art scholar, Otto Frank, and convinced Otto to come to New York to work with him at Macy’s. When Otto’s father died, Otto returned to Germany and fought in WWI.  Because of growing antisemitism in Germany, he took his family to Amsterdam and asked for Nathan Jr.’s help to bring his family to the United States. Nathan Jr. tried but the visas for the Frank family were denied. After being discovered in the hidden rooms above his shop, Otto and his family, including daughter Anne Frank, were sent to the Nazi concentrations camps. Only Otto would survive.
So, in summary, this little antique teapot is steeped in history and the connecting thread is Oscar Gutherz, owner of a porcelain factory, and his sister, Lina. We imagine it was imported to the United States by Lazarus Straus & Sons in the early 1900s from Limoges, France and was placed on a Macy’s basement shelf in New York. Then, soon after, a woman shopping for a large teapot at Macy’s bought this one made by Oscar and took it home. Although we can envision many cups of tea being poured over the years from this lovely pot, we wish we knew more of its story from the time it was bought at Macy’s in the early 1900s to showing up on a thrift store shelf a hundred years later in 2021!  - Paraphrased from:    Southern Vintage Table