Galluba & Hofmann - Oriental expressive dancer around 1925
Art deco
green stamp mark 1905-1937,
Model number 391,
Porcelain, glazed and polychrome painted, ornamental gilding,
Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm,
Condition: very good

naturalistic shape in porcelain with partial overglaze painting in green and other colours,
a young dancer standing on an oval plinth in a lively dance pose,

The Galluba & Hofmann porcelain factory was a German porcelain manufacturer that produced a wide variety of porcelain items in Ilmenau in Thuringia from 1888 until the Great Depression in 1929.

The factory's products were of a very high artistic standard and were frequently honoured at trade fairs and exhibitions. In 1897, the company received a gold award at the Saxon-Thuringian Industrial and Trade Exhibition in Leipzig, which prompted the Grand Ducal family of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach to visit the factory several times and stock up on various decorative porcelains. In 1900, the porcelain factory took part in the World Exhibition in Paris, where an ornately decorated porcelain clock it produced received the "Mention honourable" award. This award further boosted sales of Galluba & Hofmann products in France.
The factory's heyday ended with the First World War, as a result of which the French and US sales markets collapsed. They were no longer interested in German porcelain. A slow decline began in the 1920s. The global economic crisis finally dealt the company the final blow when it went bankrupt and had to cease production in 1929. The owners had not succeeded in establishing their products on the domestic market.
Only a minority of the products were sold in Germany.

Products of the "Galluba & Hofmann" brand are rare today and are mainly from the period between 1895 and 1914. They fetch correspondingly high prices from collectors.

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