Air Brush
Erphila "Coach" Mug
4-7/16" high x 4-1/8" diameter (plus handle)

China mug, decorated with an airbrushed scene of a horse-drawn coach and evergreens. (See detail photos below, left.)

Circa 1930's. Probably Czech.

Impressed:
1023
1/2 L
We have had other, identical, "Coach" mugs which also carried the mark: ERPHILA

 

Background: ERPHILA was the acronym for Ebeling & Reuss, Philadelphia, a Philadelphia based importer. E&R was not a manufacturer, but imported goods -- primarily ceramics -- from Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia, occasionally commissioning items to their own specifications. They operated from around 1886 to the late 1990's.