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THBSet of 8 Vintage Lenox Porcelain Dinner Plates
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveJan 19, 2025
Over 800 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a collection of sterling silver, African artifacts, oriental rugs, Asian antiquities, a collection from the Ex Managing Director of the NYC Waldorf Astoria, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Set of 8 Vintage Lenox Porcelain Dinner Plates. Highly intricate cobalt blue and gold pattern around the edge with a blank center. Identification code "1830)Z.92.B.Q." inscribed along base edges. Marked in middle of bases "Silver-Lenox Made Expressly for Ovington Bros. New York" with a wreath around a cursive "L." This logo indicates the piece was made between 1906 and 1930, as the words "Made in the USA" were added after 1930.
Size: 10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
#230 #4358 .
Lenox was founded in 1889 by Walter Scott Lenox as Lenox’s Ceramic Art Company in Trenton, New Jersey. They rapidly expanded in the 1900s to sell tableware, giftware, and collectible products in massive quantities, while still maintaining hand-painted quality. Two of their very first bone china patterns (the “Ming” and “Mandarin”) remained for sale for the next fifty years due to their high popularity. For most of the 20th Century it was the most prestigious American maker of tableware and produced other decorative pieces as well, eventually mushrooming into a mega-corporation that includes the Lenox, Dansk, Reed & Barton, Gorham, and Oneida brands. Lenox products also became well known in the United States thanks to Frank Graham Holmes, chief designer from 1905 to 1954, who won several artistic awards such as the 1927 Craftsmanship Medal of the American Institute of Architects and the 1943 silver medal of the American Designers Institute. Lenox pieces were the only American porcelain chosen for display in 1928 by the National Museum of Ceramics in Sèvres, France. Several Lenox china services were commissioned for the White House over the years, adding to their credibility and visibility, with whole sets in the Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. In 1983 Lenox was acquired by Brown-Forman Corporation. Brown-Forman acquired Dansk International Designs and its Gorham Manufacturing Company division in 1991, which were then incorporated into Lenox. In 2005, however, Brown-Forman sold Lenox, Inc. to collectible manufacturer Department 56 for $190 million. The Lenox company archives, not purchased by Department 56, were donated to several repositories. China-related archival documents were donated to the Rutgers University Libraries. The historical china collections were given to the Newark Museum and the New Jersey State Museum. Lenox Sales, Inc. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008. In 2009 Clarion Capital Partners purchased the assets of Lenox and renamed the company Lenox Corporation. Throughout all this Lenox continued some manufacture of bone china dinnerware at its plant in Kinston, North Carolina, which was built in 1989. In a bankruptcy auction conducted in 2015 the operating assets of Reed & Barton, a competing maker of flatware, were acquired by Lenox, who shortly thereafter began offering new products through several other companies, including Kate Spade New York, Marchesa by Lenox, and Brian Gluckstein by Lenox. By 2020 it was the last significant manufacturer of bone china in the United States, until the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of the company’s only remaining American factory. Later in the year it was announced that all factory work would move overseas, and that they would permanently close all of their outlet and warehouse stores, also citing the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2020 Lenox was acquired by private equity firm Centre Lane Partners, who then absorbed their prior primary competitor Oneida Limited the following year. Today the Lenox name represents one of the largest tableware companies in the world, with their annual revenue climbing back up to $145.9 million by the end of 2023.
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10 1/2 x 10 1/2 in.
