Włocławek - Faience kitchen clock

Włocławek - Faience kitchen clock is held by The International Center for Information Management Systems and Services (Poland). Description supplied by the holding institution: Faience kitchen clock; underglaze ornament, hand-painted. Factory product, Zjednoczone Zakłady Ceramiki Stołowej, Fabryka Fajansu in Włocławek, 1970s. The Włocławek Faience Factory was founded in 1873 by Zygmunt Kühfeld, Dawid Czamański, Izydor Szrejer, and Bernard Boas. It produced plates, bowls, sets of kitchen containers, breakfast and dinner sets, as well as a wide range of faience fancy goods. Few products of this factory were decorated with multicolored floral motifs. After a fire in 1880, Józef Teichfeld and Ludwik Asterblum became the new owners. In 1918, Józef Teichfeld sold the factory for the amount of 600,000 Polish marks to a company founded by Majer Nieszawski, Salomon (vel Stanisław) Erenreich, Jakub Jabłonka, Wolf Złotogórski, Jakub Nuta Kruszyński, and Nachman Krupka. During the German occupation in World War II, the factory was confiscated for the German Third Reich. After 1945, the factory resumed production of handmade and… Published through Europeana; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.