A FRANKLIN PIERCE PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE DESSERT PLATE. Limoges, deep rose border, the first outli...

A FRANKLIN PIERCE PRESIDENTIAL SERVICE DESSERT PLATE. Limoges, deep rose border, the first outlined in gilt, factory mark obscured beneath notes affixed to undersurface. Dia: 7 1/8 in (18 cm) Provenance: 1889 Government liquidation sale, Washington DC; sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, November 17, 1973, lot 781; Butterfield & Butterfield Fine American Furniture & Decorative Arts, San Francisco, November 4, 1992, lot 72 (partial). The label affixed to the verso of this plate reads: 'Government sale of Wicker Furniture, China, Tapestries, Draperies, Lace Curtains, Carpets, Mattings, etc. From the Executive Mansion. / On Wednesday morning, December 20th, 1899, at 10 o'clock, I will sell within my sales room, 920 Pa Ave, N.W., by order of W. Sinclair, steward, a lot of unserviceable Furniture, Carpets, Mattings, Draperies, etc., from the Executive Mansion. / James W. Ratcliffe, Auctioneer.' There are two additional labels on the verso, one a 1990s-era Butterfield and Butterfield lot tag, and the other reading 'Franklin Pierce–French / T.V Factory became Haviland.' A 1961 inventory of the White House China Room now digitized by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library mentions Franklin Pierce's 'Red-Edged Set' marked 'H& Co' used in State Dinner Service with borders of deep rose outlined in gilt. Similar pieces from this service are illustrated Klamkin, Marie, White House China, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972), pl 14; Earle, Alice Morse, China Collecting in America, 1892, p 25. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing