Antique Handpainted Porcelain Plate Featuring Lily of the Valley - Made by O & EG Royal Austria - Painted by Laporte circa 1899-1918 steamboat an extraordinary variety of shapes

an extraordinary variety of shapes and brilliant technique combine to make French furniture of this age one of the most complete manifestations of the decorative arts of all time

- Comes in original box

this was such a popular pattern it was in production for 50 years and came complete with an extensive amount of serving pieces and accessories

000 people a year were traveling back and forth between America and England via ocean liners

Antique Handpainted Porcelain Plate Featuring Lily of the Valley - Made by O & EG Royal Austria - Painted by Laporte circa 1899-1918 steamboat an extraordinary variety of shapes{HISTORY} Made in Austria between 1899 1918, this antique porcelain plate was handpainted by an artist named Laporte for the pottery O & E. G. Royal Austria. The O & E. G. in the pottery name stands for the owner's initials brothers Oscar and Edgar Gutherz who built up a reputation for creating some of the finest porcelain dishware in the world. It is always fun to draw connections between antique pieces that seemingly have nothing in common at all.