While doing research for a fellow collector and friend on a piece that he recently acquired and thought could be the infamous "Fuxit" decor, Fuxit's true identity was revealed. Unfortunately, for my friend, his piece is still a mystery but the research process employed to reveal "Fuxit" remains the same.
Loetz often described decors using colors (i.e.: weiss marmorirt m blattgruen Asten orangeopal Perlen) as well as simply listing "Ausf 33" in the production notes. In these cases, researching photographic examples, matching them to production numbers and seeing which decors mentioned in the production notes best match the decor descriptions and/or the decor name or Ausf or PG # is how we can usually connect the dots to document a new decor.
In this case, a slight diversion was required. When "Fuxit" was mentioned in the production notes, we noted that often a DEK was also mentioned. The DEK's that were noted as being applied to "Fuxit" included: DEK 472,473, 474, 475, 480, 481, 482, 483, 484, 486 and 487. The "Fuxit" decor was also occasionally listed by itself without a DEK and even noted "ohne" (without) DEK. Another clue that we noted was that many of the production numbers that included the "Fuxit" decor also listed "Aventurin" as being produced together with the same DEK that was applied to the Fuxit production.
Recently, we completed a large project adding several new DEK's to the site. This new information allowed us to narrow our search considerably by first searching for the DEK's that were applied to the various Fuxit examples produced and then matching those examples to specific shapes. In this process we were able to match four photographic examples to a specific DEK that also matched a production number listing "Fuxit" as being produced with that DEK and in that shape. This research revealed that "Avenutrin mit Blau" = Fuxit!
