An Allach Porcelain Rarity – ‘Dragoner Offizier’ by Prof. Theodor Kärner

The exhibition  ‪ ‘Deutsche Künstler und Die SS ‬ – “German artists and the SS” (catalogue pictured below) shown in 1944 in Breslau and Salzburg lists exhibit number 589 as ‘Fünf Kacheln gerahmt mit Reitermotiven (Keramik, Porzellan-Manufactur, Allach-Münch.)’. ‘Five tiles decorated with cavalry designs’. This particular design is ‘Dragoner Offizier’, a Prussian period Cavalry Officer.

Archived documents show  on July 3, 1944 a personal order is confirmed from Reichsführer SS Himmler.

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Exhibition Catalogue and tile in its original frame.

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Deutsche Künstler und die SS Exhibition Listing.