Condition: Very good pre-owned vintage condition. Very minor chips/petal loss on flowers. Please see photos.
Details: Round covered white porcelain box with gilded brass mountings on body of box and around edge of lid. Top of box is covered with gently mounded 3-dimensional porcelain forget-me-nots, with pale pink and yellow hand-formed roses nestled among the blue flowers. Inside of the lid is decorated with a small yellow nosegay, purple marguerites, and a pink rose. Inside rim of lid is marked with a hand-drawn 61, corresponding with the same 61 on bottom of box. Bottom of box marked in black "Germany".
The name "Elfinware" was coined by Breslauer- Underberg, Inc. of New York in 1947, for Dresden-like porcelain items sold in dime stores. These pieces were decorated with 3-dimensional porcelain flowers and "moss". Elfinware pieces were made during the 1920s and 1930s, but those marked "Elfinware Germany" were sold by Breslauer-Underberg, an importer, starting in 1945.
