Can anyone tell me if the Dansk Arabesqu pattern would have 2 different imprints on the bottom?I have 2 pasta bowls, one is slightly different size and feel than the one with imprinted Dansk Arabesque porcelain markings.Are these both authorized products or is the one on the right a counterfeit?Thank you.Beachrat1
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I don't know much about the Arabesque line, but I do know that Dansk changed their logo quite a few times over the years. And I don't believe I've ever seen a fake Dansk product for any of their lines. Except for a few series, the majority of Dansk products were affordable and intended for the average household. There would not be much financial incentive to create a fake. I believe your bowls are just fine.
Agreed with cdsilva: I'm sure they're legit, for just the reasons s/he says.
Also, I have some Dansk products that are nominally the same but were produced some years apart, as manufacturing shifted from Denmark to Japan to China, and the details are different. That may have happened here.
Dinnerware is not really my area of expertise, but I've done a little digging in to it anyway.
The designer is Niels Refsgaard.(NR initials can be seen on the plate on the left) He started by building his own oven, for his production of ceramics.
His designs has been produced in Denmark, France, Portugal, Norway, Japan, China, The Phillipines and Sri Lanka (as marked on the plate on the left in the picture)
Niels Refsgaard still runs a small shop in Bisserup, Denmark, which is open by appointment.
http://refsgard.dk/ (website is part danish and part english)
EDIT
Here's a picture of Refsgaard by his oven.
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