TWELVE LENOX GOLD-GROUND MONOGRAMED BOTANICAL PLACE PLATES

DATED 1906, GREEN PRINTED MARK, SIGNED W.(ILLIAM) H. MORLEY

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TWELVE LENOX GOLD-GROUND MONOGRAMED BOTANICAL PLACE PLATES
Dated 1906, green printed mark, signed W.(illiam) H. Morley
Each painted with an orchid specimen, named in Latin on the underside, and inscribed Trenton N.J. Dec. 25^th 1906, the wide border acid-etched with ginko leaves and stylized vines and with the monogram CGR, the footrim gilt
10 3/8in. (26.4cm.) diam. (12)

Provenance

Charles G. Roebling, Trenton, NJ (from a special commission of 32 plates)

Literature

"Fine American Table Porcelain", Pottery and Glass, July 1908, p. 12
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Porcelain 1770-1920, New York, 1989, p. 254

Exhibited

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Porcelain 1790-1920, 8 April - 25 June 1989, no. 98 (Cattleya Mantinii only)

Lot Essay

The present twelve plates and seven more offered in lot 318 are inscribed on the underside with a date of December 25th 1906. It is likely that the first twenty-four plates were a Christmas gift in 1906, with a further eight plates added as supplements in later years. Named in Latin on the underside, these plates are traditionally described as based on orchids grown in Roebling's own extensive greenhouses at his estate outside Trenton.

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