Lady Charlotte’s Lily is reproduced from a pair of porcelain plates, circa 1755, made at the Bow Factory in London and now in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation collections. Its exquisite lily and anemone are rendered in the deep enameled colors that made expensive British-made porcelains the hottest luxury goods of the 1750s. The aristocracy and “ladies who took tea” competed to own the multi-colored porcelain dinner and tea wares that the finest English companies could make by mid-century.
Edgy designers and innovative technologies enabled English manufacturers such as Bow, Chelsea, and Worcester to painstakingly replicate shapes and decoration perfected by the Chinese. Just as the 18th-century British artisanssucceeded at emulating Chinese colors and techniques, Mottahedeh has brilliantly captured this vibrant floral pattern in a crisp, fresh bouquet for 21st-century tables.
The name honors Lady Charlotte Schreiber, a 19th-century British collector of porcelain and pottery, who gave her collection (including important records of the Bow Factory in east London) to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London’s great museum of decorative arts.
At a Glance:
Porcelain floral dinnerware
Five-piece place setting
10 3/4" dia. dinner plate
8 1/2" dia. dessert/salad plate
6 3/4" dia. bread and butter plate
5 1/2" dia. saucer
2 3/4" dia.; 2 3/4"H cup
Microwave and dishwasher safe
WILLIAMSBURG by Mottahedeh
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