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Lenox Rare Vintage Engagement Demitasse Cup & Saucer For Sale
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Lenox
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Vintage
Engagement Cup & Saucer
For
your consideration, this set is
known as an Engagement Cup
& Saucer. Crafted
from fine ivory Lenox china, the
backstamp indicates production
between 1930 and 1949, most
likely toward the earlier years.
Delicate
demitasse cup is 2" tall,
2-3/4" diameter at top of
bowl (not including the ring
handle). Bowl shaped
saucer is 1" high,
4-1/8" wide at top.
Rarely
available, and highly
collectible, the pieces have a
delicacy and translucency that
is singularly unique to that
early time period and has not
been reproduced.
History
of the Engagement Cup &
Saucer
From
the 1893 publication of the book
"The Pottery and
Porcelain of the United
States: An Historical
Review of American Ceramic Art
from the Earliest Times to the
Present Day" page 236
we find a picture of the
Engagement Cup and Saucer.
Note that this Lenox issue is
the exact same as the earlier
Ceramic Art Company version.
From
an 1894 article in "The
Jewelers' Circular" we
find the following under the
title "A Craze for
Pottery": "The
present pretty custom of giving
to a young lady whose engagement
has been announced a dainty cup
and saucer may have started the
craze, or it may be the result
of it; but whatever its origin,
the pottery fad has signaled its
coming, and the real
fin-de-siècle* woman will know
not only the ear-marks of the
various kinds of pottery, but
something of their history and
of their real
value."
*Fin-de-siècle
- characteristic of the close of
the 19th century and especially
its literary and artistic
climate of sophistication,
opulence or decadence
From
"Imagining
Consumers: Design and
Innovation from Wedgwood to
Corning":
"During the decade,
retailers encouraged manufacturers
to reconceptualize standard
lines as wedding-related gifts
as a way of enlarging markets
for household accessories.
Porcelain factories pioneered
this theme, and cut glass makers
hurried to catch up. In
1891 Walter Scott Lenox,
proprietor of Ceramic Art
Company in Trenton, New Jersey,
received a perplexing order for
some porcelain "engagement
cups." "But what
is an engagement cup?"
queried Lenox. "Oh,
after-dinner, coffee, or
anything of that kind,"
replied the scheming merchant,
"as pretty and delicate as
you can" make them.
After receiving his porcelain
delicacies, the dealer launched
a ballyhoo promotion, telling
fashionable shoppers that a betrothal
warranted giving the bride an
"engagement cup and saucer."
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pieces have been around for
many years, some as many as
100 and are sold "AS IS".
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out of the box, isn't
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