A LENOX/CERAMIC ART COMPANY CLARET-GROUND PORTRAIT PLATE

CIRCA 1905, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND GILT CAC MONOGRAM MARKS, IMPRESSED OO CYPHER, SIGNED H.(ANS) NOSEK

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A LENOX/CERAMIC ART COMPANY CLARET-GROUND PORTRAIT PLATE
CIRCA 1905, IMPRESSED UPPERCASE AND GILT CAC MONOGRAM MARKS, IMPRESSED OO CYPHER, SIGNED H.(ANS) NOSEK
Finely painted with a bust-length portrait of a young maiden holding a closed volume and a stylus, within a gilt surround decorated with raised entwined beaded lines, the border gilt with foliate scrolls suspending flower garlands, gilt line rim
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) diameter

Lot Essay

The Bohemian painter Hans Nosek is recorded as having worked for Lenox circa 1903-1907, specializing in European style cabinet plates of which the present lot is a prime example. See Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, American Porcelain 1770-1920, New York, 1989, pp. 55 and 69.

Compare The Pompey Collection, Christie's, New York, 23 April 2004, lot 251

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