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1889~1896 LENOX BELLEEK FOOTED BOWL~HAND PAINTED FLORAL ~ CERAMIC ARTS CO. MARK
$ 50.16
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Description
I am offering a very early Lenox (when it was called the Ceramics Arts Company) hand-painted, footed bowl.It has a slightly off-white base color (not Lenox "cream").
It has a hand painted floral border (inside) and "medallions" of floral design on each side of the exterior.
It is 7 3/8" long, 4 1/8" wide, and 2 1/2" tall.
History of Ceramics Arts Company and its transition to Lenox Inc.
Reference #1
Walter Scott Lenox founded his company in Trenton, New Jersey in 1889. His idea was to establish an art studio, not a factory. Lenox's Ceramic Art Company swiftly gained a good reputation. By 1897 examples of Lenox's work were included in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution.
In 1902 the manufacture started offering to its customers service plates. The success of this offer led to development of complete dinner sets. Evolution of the company caused also change of the name to Lenox Incorporated.
In 1910 the company introduced first patterns decorated with transfer prints. In 1918 president Woodrow Wilson commissioned an official state service in the factory. The Lenox china is in continuos use at the White House.
Reference #2
The Ceramic Art Company of Trenton, New Jersey, was founded in 1889 by J. Coxon and Walter Scott Lenox as an Art Pottery and was an early producer of American Belleek porcelain. In 1896 Jonathan Coxon departed and the company continued as the Ceramic Art Company with the word Lenox added beneath the CAC mark. In February 1906, the name of the company was changed to Lenox Incorporated.