Lovely and delicate, antique set of eleven soup plates by Tressemanes & Vogt (TV) Limoges, France.
The plates are hand-painted with shades of pink/magenta colored flowers and green leaves on elaborately gilded rims. Each plate features heavily gilded edges and gold scrolls.
The flowers look more pink and violet (colder tones) rather than red (warm tone).
Measure - 9.5” across the rims. The plates are deep.
Marked with Tressemanes & Vogt (TV) Limoges mark and the retailers mark “Higgins and Seiter, New York”.
Condition:
Good overall antique condition. Some wear to gilt filigree and to the hand painted floral decorations. Wear and minor scabs on the undersides/feet. Use related marks and scratches. Some cutlery marks. I haven’t noticed any chips but one plate has a hairline on the rim (pictured).
This is an antique set and signs of use are expected.
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Higgins & Seiter operated its china and glass emporium; considered among the foremost in the city of New York and one of the most prominent retailers of the era.
The firm was organized just after the end of the Civil War by Colonel Charles Jacob Seiter of the 7th Regiment and brothers Barton B. and Arthur Higgins. The partnership was formalized in 1887 and the three men filled their warerooms with the highest grade and costliest home items imported from Europe.
Business was booming for the retailer and in 1901 it opened a connecting annex directly behind its store, at Nos. 51 through 55 West 21st Street. The firm had purchased three abutting brick-faced homes which were demolished to make way for its new store and loft building. Designed by architect Mortimer C. Merritt, who 14 years earlier had designed the massive block-wide cast iron store of Hugh O’Neill just steps away on Sixth Avenue, it was a dignified mixture of styles. Its six stories made use of buff-colored brick, terra cotta and stone.
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