Service de Poupee
- Manufacturers of Themed Tableware
- Arthur Court Aluminum
- Brown-Westhead, Moore, and Co
- Copeland Rd Plates and Cake Pedestal
- F & S Ivy Pattern Cups, Bowls, and Saucers
- F & S Plates & Bowls without Ivy Pattern
- Gien Blue and Brown Series
- Keller and Guerin Colored Plates and Bowls
- Sarreguemines Black
- Sarreguemines Brown
- Sarreguemines DV
- Service de Poupee
- Spode
- Circular Cartoon Cake Plate, Serving Plates, and Kitchen Canisters
- Royal Winton
- Specific kinds of Tableware
1925? Two cream-colored small plates 5" in diameter with 2½" green-and-blue stencilled figures of FS and FC at the center. Around the central picture runs a yellow band. Most likely made by Montereau or Choisy-le-Roi. The theme of this tea-service set for children or "service de poupée" was, no doubt, the fables of La Fontaine. $20.50 from Mary Ellen Kennedy, Larchmont, NY through Ebay, Nov., '99.
I was and am sure that there must be a number of such sets around France, and so I was delighted to find these two little dishes on Ebay. Their paint-work is very attractive. Particularly well done is the stance of the fox with one paw on the vase he cannot penetrate for its food, while the stork does so easily. The two-color approach, which works effectively here, means that the cheese in the crow's mouth is green! Both plates seem to have a registry mark of "Z" inprinted in their backs, and FC adds a "P."
12 plates 5" (FC)
1 plate 5.5" (TH)
1 platter 6.5" (FS)
1 nut dish 4" (tortoise, perhaps part of a pair including also a hare?)
1 sugar bowl and lid 4.5" (TH)
1 gravy bowl 4.5" (FC, hare)
17 further pieces of earthenware from the same set for €129.90 from La Lanterne Rouge through Ebay, March, '25.
How nice to find more of the set 25 years later! And now, of course, I wonder how big the complete set might be. A quick Google search came up empty-handed.