TWO LENOX COBALT-BLUE AND GOLD-BORDER PLATES

DATED 1929 OR 1930, GREEN PRINTED SCRIPT L AND WREATH MARK, GILT PATTERN NO. 1830/F.306.B OR 1830/C.423, RESPECTIVELY, THE YACHT SIGNED W.(ILLIAM) H. MORLEY

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TWO LENOX COBALT-BLUE AND GOLD-BORDER PLATES
Dated 1929 or 1930, green printed script L and wreath mark, gilt pattern no. 1830/F.306.B or 1830/C.423, respectively, the yacht signed W.(illiam) H. Morley
The first finely painted with an America's Cup Defender yacht, identified on the reverse, 'American Yacht ENTERPRISE Won the International Cup Races 1930.'; the other printed with a Hudson Valley View, identified on the reverse 'Bear Mountain Bridge.', the cavetti with a gilt band acid-etched with seeded gilt chain, within a cobalt-blue and gilt line rim
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) diameter (2)

Provenance

F.W. Roebling - 1929, The Bear Mountain Bridge

Lot Essay

Both plates with Lenox Museum/Archive oval, gilt foil sample labels, and dymotape Inv. nos. 44 and 50, respectively.
It is interesting to note that Roebling provided the suspension cables for The Bear Mountain Bridge.

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