Antique Early 20th Century German Porcelain Figurine Carl Schneider Gräfenthal. This product data sheet is originally written in English. Early 20th Century’s porcelain figurine depicting a lady playing the piano accompanying a gentleman playing the violin. The mark in blue on the bottom is a crown and two horizontal bars over a “G” with “1859” below. It says’G’ for Gräfenthal, a town in Thuringia, East Germany. This mark has been used from 1886 onwards. The addition of ” Foreign”, in one side of the figurine, dates the figurine between 1920/1940. The company was started out as’Porzellanfabrik Unger, Schneider & Cie’ factory in 1859. It went through various mergers and changes of ownership. In 1886 it became the Carl Schneiders Erben factory, however continued with the Gräfenthal name and mark. In good conditions with minor signs of wear and only one small imperfection on the pianist back (shown in the last photo). The conditions description is a statement of opinion only, for these reasons, please look carefully at each photo. Any bright spots in the photos can be attributed to the lighting. The conditions description is a stateme.