Haviland Limoges Large Open Serving Bowl
This is a French Haviland & Co Limoges hard paste porcelain (fine china) open serving or vegetable or salad bowl. The pattern is Old Blackberry. The date is circa 1887.
The bowl is large; it is 3 5/8” high and in a square shape at 10 ¾” by 10 ¾”.
There are no chips, nicks, cracks or crazing. There may be a few glaze marks due to the manufacturing process.
The green underglaze mark is H&Co underscored by Depose. The blue overglaze factory decorating mark is Haviland & Co Limoges inside a double circle.
The descriptive text that follows, in which I write about Haviland’s pattern, Old Blackberry, will be repeated in all of the listings I have in which I am selling this specific dinnerware. You can do a search within my shop for “Haviland Old Blackberry” to view all of the listings for sale.
Old Blackberry is a multifloral, or botanical transfer decoration of Haviland china, and produced mostly in the 1870s and 1880s. The worker at the factory had the freedom on how to decorate each piece
