Center Bouquet Blue 6 3/8"Bread & Butter Plate Laurel Empire Shape Taylor Smith & T Co. (TS&T)

The Center Bouquet Blue china by Taylor Smith & T Co. (TS&T) is a pattern that features an all-over blue floral design on a cream-colored background.  It belongs to the Laurel Empire Shape line of dinnerware, which has a laurel wreath border.

The TS&T company was founded in 1899 by five partners, but it was renamed in 1901 after one of them withdrew. The company operated in Chester, West Virginia, from 1900 until 1981, when it was purchased by Anchor Hocking. The company produced various types of pottery, but focused on dinnerware from the late 1930s onwards.  It is estimated that this pattern was made sometime between the 1940s and 1950s.