Description
Art Deco tableware set for 8 people from Lanternier Limoges.
This is a rare and beautiful set from the famous French manufacturer in Limoges.
It consists of 24 plates: eight large plates, eight soup plates, eight starter or dessert plates, a vegetable dish, a soup tureen, two long dishes, a round deep dish, a sauce boat, a side dish and a dessert dish.
This service is beautifully crafted with shiny white porcelain decorated in blue and grey with both floral and geometric patterns and a platinum finish on the rims and handles.
The pieces are polygonal in shape, i.e. with cut sides. The handles of the vegetable dish and soup tureen are simply platinum spheres. These refined shapes are typical of the Art Deco period, such beauty, such refinement.
It was Alfred Lanternier’s father, François Frédéric Lanternier, who founded the factory in 1857, which became Alfred Lanternier & Co in 1890. After the war, Lanternier continued to produce luxury porcelain.
In 1925, they received the Grand Prix at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. They also produced porcelain for two design studios: Pomone (Le Bon Marché department store) and La Mestrado, the design studio of the famous Galeries Lafayette in Paris. At the end of the 1960s, they merged with Gérard Dufraisseix & Abbé GDA Limoges.
More information and prices available on request.
