Design Motifs
Several design elements continue throughout the pre-WMF Orivit line:
I. Five Petalled Flower:
2173-2177, 2189, 2190, 2191, 2205, 2215,
2261, 2276,
2582
II. Elongated Berry:
2104,
2137,
2225, 2237,
2238, 2279, 2525-2528, 2536, 2544
III. Branching Roots:
2142, 2186, 2219, 2221, 2223,
2323,
2328, 2688
IV. Whiplash:
2192, 2194,
2198,
2199,
2325, 2387,2545,2575,
2576 2579,
2585
V. Femme Fleur:
2205,
2210,
2211,
2235,
2254,
2280, 2338 (see Bayerisches National Museum link), 2341,
2342,
2568,
2569,
2586,
2634
VI. Grain:
2091, 2094, 2195, 2300,
3164
VII. Orchid:
2038,
2078,
2111,
2499,
2600
Repeated designs, for instance the elongated berry or five petalled flower, were likely intended to allow
the customer to purchase matching sets for the home. It is possible that such items may have been fashioned
by the same designer.
Designers
Both Hermann Gradl and Georges Charles Coudray are known to have designed pieces for
Orivit1.
Theo Blum, Georg Graseggar, Walter Scherf, Vicor Heinrich Seifert, and Johann Christian Kroner
are also known to have been associated with the company2.
Certain Orivit designs, especially those incorporating water plants (see Motif III: Branching Roots) and fish share design elements
with Nymphenburg porcelein known to have been designed by Hermann Gradl.
Marks of Orivit
| Pre-WMF |
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Pewter |
Bronze |
| After WMF |
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Pewter |
Hardmetal |
Sterling |
Additional marks are documented2.
Please note that the Orivit OAG mark was evidently sometimes applied to items designed before 1905 but produced afterwards (for instance item 2464 above).
Citations
1 Brohan Museum
2 Orivit: Zinn des Jugendstils aus Koln