Dessert / Salad Plates, Harker Pottery, Victorian Courting Couple Fragonard, 22K Gold Filigree, Set of 4, Vintage 1950s fan-and-circle Export houses working under these

Export houses working under these conditions leaned toward pattern work that broke from Japan's more traditional florals and landscapes

it works equally well for fish

suggesting it may be an unlabeled variant or a similar pattern from another maker working in the same iridescent glaze style popular in Japan's export porcelain during the 1990s

If you're drawn to porcelain with a strong maker story

" It's a remarkable artifact — the kind of advertising that doubled as a declaration

Dessert / Salad Plates, Harker Pottery, Victorian Courting Couple Fragonard, 22K Gold Filigree, Set of 4, Vintage 1950s fan-and-circle Export houses working under theseShe's in blue. He's in red and gold. They are mid courtship, frozen in the gracious tableaux that made Jean Honor Fragonard one of the most beloved painters of the 18th century and this decal, one of the most enduring in American dinnerware history. Produced by Harker Pottery in the 1950s America's oldest pottery, founded in 1840 these four dessert and salad plates carry the classic Fragonard courting couple motif surrounded by a full border and