Item No. de523.

Arabia coffee cup, Red landscape. Year, 1950s.

Height 5 cm, diameter 8.5 cm.

Year: 1936-1975
Model: Reinhard Richter


The As model was aimed at the export market to compete with English tableware. It has also proven to be a success in the domestic market since the beginning. The special needs of exporting countries increased the range of containers to more than 50 objects. There were fifty different ornaments - copper prints, transfers, stamping ornaments and streaks.

Among the first ones was the Landscape ornament, which was introduced in England already in the 18th century. As a decoration, a rich floral motif is circulated and the center decoration has different views of an English countryside, often fortress-like buildings, mills, boats, cows, trees, people. Arabiaan Landscape decoration originally originated in 1882 via Rörstrand. In Rörstrand, ornaments had been put into production in the 1860s.

For the revitalized Landscape ornament, the copper plates were again engraved "especially for Arabia", as the magazine notes. Initially, the ornament was made in dark blue, later included red, green, brown, black (gray) and green blue (1940-50s). However, the dark blue version remained the longest in production, or until the end of the AS model, until 1975. At that time, Arabia's copper weight was also abolished, and no copper plating ornaments were subsequently made. However, the story of the AS Blue Landscape was still a new turn in the 1980s and 90s, because Arabia's mail order (Arabia Fantasy) shortly ran the coffee cups of that model in the distance.
Different times Landscapes, however, distinguish themselves well on the basis of a factory stamp.