Gilded Age Coalport Porcelain Set Of Desert Plates, Set Of Twelve

Gilded Age Coalport Porcelain Set of Desert Plates,Set of Twelve,Circa 1900 (Before 1911)The set of twelve plates are beautifuly designed with a rich red border with small gilt leaves and overlaid with a inner border of raised gilt flowers and leaves. The raised border is crimped and is gilded too. The center of the well has an elorate openwork gilt stat and around the upper border of the well are six gilt stems.Dimensions: 9 1/8 inch diameter x 3/4 inches high.Mark: ENGLAND over crown above COALPORT/ AD 1750 (Used 1891-1920'salsoprinted mark for New York Retailer. in orange, "Davis Collamore & Co. Ltd./Broadway & 21st Street/ New YorkReference: Davis Collamore & Co.(From Wikipedia)Davis Collamore & Co. was a high-end New York City importer of porcelain and glass, headed by Davis Collamore (7 October 1820 — 13 August 1887). The firm, rivals to Tiffany & Co. and Black, Starr & Frost, commissioned designs from Copeland Spode and Thomas Minton Sons, that featured hand-painted details over transfer-printed outlines and often rich gilding. Porcelain by Haviland, Royal Worcester, and Villeroy & Boch also appear with the firm's stamped underglaze marks integrated with the manufacturer's. Davis Collamore was among the first to recognize the beauty and value of American-made cut glass and also offered Rookwood Pottery, for which they were the representatives at the Exposition Universelle, Paris 1889.Davis Collamore & Co.'s premises also matched the moves uptown of fashionable New Yorkers. An ad for tea and dinner services advertised from the firm's early premises, at 479 Broadway, just below Broome Street, appeared in Harper's Weekly, 25 April 1863. Retail shops were opened at Broadway and 21st Street, then on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 37th Street, and then, in 1911, at 48th and Fifth Avenue and finally at 7 and 9 East 52nd Street. There was a branch at the fashionable resort of Newport, Rhode Island. (Ref: NY10581-ilp)