SALE Vintage Hand Painted Porcelain Plate Dogwood Artist Signed Gold Boarder

Porcelain : By Maker Or Type : Limoges

 

Gorgeous hand painted porcelain plate depicting a Dogwood Tree, artist signed! This plate has a gold applied scalloped boarder. It is full of color and detail! It is not dated, so I am unsure of the age. It looks to be done in the home painted Limoges style of the late 1800's, but I am unsure. It is signed A. Sakim

The plate measures 7 3/4 inches in diameter. It is in excellent condition! The botton foot has a chip, looks to be part of a manufacturing flaw and not damage. NO chips, dings, flakes, or flea bites. The colors are bright and intact!

This plate is a real beauty!

Here is an excerpt about home hand painted Limoges by Debbie DuBay: Many of the artists working in the American decorating studios had worked previously in a European porcelain factory. It was also common practice for American factory artists to work in several factories during their lifetimes, thus having multiple studio affiliations. Some of the more well known artists are: Burton, Challinor, Donath, Jelinek, Keates, Leon, Roy, Schoenig, Vokral and Yeschek. The peak of the Limoges production was during Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901) and the Victorian Era (1850-1900) when decoration with ostentation and embellishment were commonplace. Obsessed with the rose, Victorians used Limoges blanks as a means of combining their passion for china painting with their love of the rose. By the mid-19th century, one of America's most popular pastimes was china painting. Many American china painters visited Europe to learn the art of china painting, and by the beginning of the 20th century, in the United States alone, there were more than 25,000 artists enjoying the pastime of china painting. This large number of amateur artists accounts for the wide variation in decoration among hand painted Limoges pieces. The majority of American china painters were women who were considered amateur. What developed was a huge cottage industry of women artists who were not only passionate about painting, but were extremely skilled and talented. But due to the social morays of the era, they were never allowed to achieve professional status. After learning the art of china painting, the amateur artists purchased blanks at fine department stores and studios. They did not discriminate against any of the Limoges factories; each artist chose and purchased blanks based on individual interest. Blanks may have been chosen, for example, to fit into a dresser set that she was putting together. As a result, most dresser sets have a different factory mark on each piece, despite being painted by the same artist. Amateur artists are responsible for most of the hand painted Limoges porcelain found on the American market today. The underglaze factory mark will be found on the bottom of these pieces, and elsewhere the artist's signature, initials and date may be found. However, many amateur artists did not sign or date their porcelain items, so fabulous pieces of Limoges art are often found without a signature. This lack of an amateur artist's signature does not affect the value of a piece, based on the fact that most reach the retail market without any information on the artist. Sad, except for the fact that a piece of Limoges hand painted by an amateur American artist is sometimes more desired by collectors than pieces decorated in the Limoges factories. And, although the exact history of the artist may be unknown, the price it commands may be high based on the quality of the painting, and a beautiful piece of Limoges art has found a well deserved resting place in a collectors home.

Item ID: porcelaindogwood0508-r

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25% entire store sale! Sale ends 11.30.09