Pair of commemorative presentation plates, 8 1/2" (dessert or luncheon sized)

Date from 1886 to 1910, following the design of the Bernardaud plates made for the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition

Elegantly painted border of interlocking floral garlands with gilded scrolls at the center, blue reserves in between. Center with entwined GW cipher of George Washington on a cloud-like pedestal

Marked "FRANCE" above entwined "CA", for Charles Ahrenfeldt, the Limges porcelain manufacturer who made high quality porcelain wares between 1886 to 1910.

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