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Gena_awerkamp
on November 30, 2007 at 13:17:14: |
Need To Know Elite Works Pattern and Need Cups
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I inherited lovely china that probably began life as a set for 12, with many serving pieces. It was used a lot, and the cups suffered most. There are only five left, and I do not know the name of the pattern so that I can try to find more. On the back of each piece are two stamps: one reads: "ELITE (underlined) L FRANCE" in green; and the other reads: "ELITE WORKS," under which there is a seal with three fleur d'lis, beneath which there is a man with a S on his left and a M on his right, under which there are the words "LIMOGES FRANCE," all in red. The background of the china is creamy white, and there is a very mildly scalloped edge on the bowls, plates, saucers, and bottoms of cups. There also is a raised pattern on the wide edges of the plates and platters that seems to have nothing to do with the painted pattern. The painted pattern in the middle of the plates and other flat pieces is four groups of five flowers each; the flowers are all pale green and the five are arranged in a rough triangle. The four flower triangles are arranged in a pinwheel in the center of the piece of china. The flowers look like primroses to me. On the edges of the flat pieces, the green flower triangles in the center are enlarged by adding one flower to each point of the triangles. In between each green flower triangle around the edge of the plate or platter appears another triangle of primroses colored pale pink at the top of the triangle, shading into lavender toward the bottom left, and then into pale green at the very bottom. Thus, around the edge of the flat pieces and the rims of the cups, there are alternating triangles of green and pink and lavender primroses, and the two different colored triangles are of different sizes.
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