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Rare Haviland & other Limoges, Pickard and Chicago Studios porcelain; hard-to-find blanks, signatures, & decoration. Layaways

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Haviland Limoges handpainted plate signed Jennings with pink flowers, irregular gilt border

$225 USDHaviland Limoges handpainted plate signed Jennings with pink flowers, irregular gilt border

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One of the most interesting things about the artist Jennings, a North Dakota painter who worked in the early 1900s, is her distinctive use of gilt borders to enhance the beauty of her china painting. Here she has embellished the curving, irregular gilt border with hand applied black curlicues. She uses a range of green shades from near-black to pale mint to set off the range of pinks in the flowers and the greens are more reminiscent of the sea than anything one might find in a garden. It's also ...
Haviland Limoges plate signed Jennings gooseberries with intricate, hand painted double border

$250 USDHaviland Limoges plate signed Jennings gooseberries with intricate, hand painted double border

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Jennings (first name unknown to me) was an early North Dakota china painter said to have studied in Chicago with Aulich. Some of her work was sold through Ogden, Merrill, and Greer, a St. Paul department store and catalog company. Her work is unusual in its composition and here, in the use of an almost filtered effect in her background colors. Rather than seamlessly matching the colors, she allows an almost white, irregular shade to wander in and out of the design elements, much as light would ...
 
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