Antique Tressemanes & Vogt Limoges France Soup Plates (11) Hand-Painted Gilt

  
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. Marked with Tressemanes & Vogt (TV) Limoges mark and the retailers mark "Higgins and Seiter, New York".

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. 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. Please inspect every photo carefully for more details. Im happy to provide additional photos upon request.

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.

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. 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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