Antique Old Paris Porcelain Pair of Plates hotsell 8.5" and 6.5" Hand Painted Floral Butterflies Cobalt Rim Victorian Shabby Cottage Chic

Antique Old Paris Porcelain Pair of Plates 8.5" and 6.5" Hand Painted Floral Butterflies Cobalt Rim Victorian Shabby Cottage Chic.

This is a gorgeous pair of antique hand painted Old Paris porcelain plates that feature multicolored flowers and butterflies against a white background. Delicate foliate gilding accents the hotsell cobalt blue rim of the plate. This would make a fine addition to your antique porcelain collection or use as intended on your dining table. Would look pretty hanging on the wall as well. The large plate measures 8.5" diameter and the smaller one measures 6.5" diameter.

Each has an unidentified mark on the back of a lion in a shield, it resembles the Schumann mark but it is not the same. The plates look like Old Paris porcelain to me.

Condition: Very good pre-owned condition, with some wear to the gilding as usual, the smaller plate has a crack at the rim and is being added as a bonus.

Old Paris porcelain was popular from the late eighteenth century until late in the nineteenth century. It was made with a particular mix of clays by small manufactories in and outside Paris. Its popularity peaked in America about 1820 until around 1850. "Old Paris” is a term that describes the output of the many factories that sprang up in and around Paris after 1770 when hard paste porcelain was first introduced at Sèvres and the various interdictions in the favor of the royal factory were relaxed. Most of these factories were under the protection of a member of the royal family or someone of equal importance. They produced wares of a similar hard paste and glaze, and there is a general similarity between the products that that makes them easily recognizable. For example, much was fairly lavishly gilded with a brassy mercuric gilding that differs considerably from early Sèvres. In the absence of a mark it is almost impossible to differentiate among the factories, and thus they are grouped together and called “Old Paris.” In many cases the china was obtained from Limoges or elsewhere and only decorated at the Paris fabrique.