Konrad Galaaen Wall Hanging

This big Konrad Galaaen wall plaque was a recent eBay purchase that we finally received from Germany this week (it took a month to get here) - and it arrived unbroken!  After looking at it closer we noticed that the porcelain is actually two pieces - there is a seam right above the blue block with the black circle.  The front of the board has K. Galaaen, but unlike our other Princess plaque, this one is unmarked on the back.

 

Konrad Galaaen Princess

This large Porsgrund plaque, designed by Konrad Galaaen, consists of a flat porcelain figure mounted on a wooden board.  It was probably produced sometime between the late 1960s and the early 70s.  The back has a stamp of the Porsgrund anchor logo with the two Ps, "Porsgrund," and "Norway."

Porsgrund "The Old Story"

The middle dish was my grandma's, and it wasn't until recently that I discovered it was part of a set.  The three dishes were made by the Porsgrund porcelain company and are called "The Old Story."  The first shows a couple like Adam and Eve, complete with apple tree and snake.  Next the couple have a small child, a house, and a cat.  Finally, the couple is older and joined by their children and grandchildren.  The dishes were designed by Anne Marie Odegaard and Konrad Galaaen and are glazed in a flow-blue-like glaze.  Apparently the three dishes were sold together in a box with a short poem called "The Old Story."

Each of my three dishes has a different mark on the back.  Each dish has the Porsgrund logo with the anchor, PP, and Norway.  The other two dishes have the years of manufacture:  70 and 68.  Each dish also has it's code number:  All of them have M.2303; under that they have (from left to right) D.78009, D.78010, and D.78011.