AT AUCTION Antique French Limoges Porcelain Hand Painted & Raised Gold Encrusted Dinner Plates

Porcelain : Antique : Limoges

 

A stunning set of 8 French Limoges hand painted porcelain 10 1/8" dinner plates decorated in raised impasto gilt decor with cranberry red borders! Perfect for the holidays!!!!

The centers are hand painted with bouquets of flowers in vibrant colors, masterfully detailed and painted atop a pale yellow background. Artist signed Mireills or similar. A pattern of raised gilt enamel rosettes and ornate scrolls circle about the plate, topped by lush cranberry red borders trimmed by an encrusted gold edge. Simply divine! Truly stunning set, quite rare and sure to please! And in very good condition too, with just the subtlest signs of use throughout the years, one small scratch on one plate located on the red border. No chips, cracks or crazing. Each plate is marked at the back for the Charles J. Ahrenfeldt company, with a green CA, FRANCE DEPOSE underglaze mark used from 1894 to early 1900s. Also marked in gold with Ovington Bros. NEW-YORK, Frabrique a Limoges, PATENTED.

These plates were made expressly for the Ovington Brothers retail store in New York City. Only the best were commissioned and imported for Ovingtons: importers and dealers of high quality European glassware and porcelains.The company began with brothers Theodore and Edward S. Ovington in 1845 and the company operated two department stores, one at Fifth Avenue in New York City and one in Brooklyn (which was a massive six-story brick building filled top to bottom with quality imports from Europe!) You can Google 'Ovington Brothers' in Brooklyn and find a reference article about the company with a nice engraving of the department store (its was huge)! Edward J. Jr and Charles K. Ovington joined the company in 1878, where it still operated under the same name and continued after Theodor and Edward S. Ovington died in 1909 (just two months apart from each other). The name of the company shortened to just Ovingtons, omitting Brothers from their marks in 1920. Items marked Ovington Bros. are pre 1920. The company demanded only the best of the best for their stores, and items marked for the Ovington Brothers are an indicator of the highest quality that was available at the time.

Item ID: MP-675