Antique Mercer Pottery Flow Blue Viterous China Luzerne Serving Platter Tray 13"

Description

Antique flow blue semi-porcelain / semi viterous serving platter or tray by Mercer Pottery Company in the Luzerne pattern. Rectangular in form with slightly scalloped edges and a border design of leaves and flowers. Edges were originally gilded.

"The Mercer Pottery Company is a defunct American pottery company. The backstamp on many of its pottery pieces indicates it was founded in 1865 in Trenton, New Jersey. It was then purchased in 1875 by James Moses. The company ran successfully until the 1930s. It claimed to have made the first semi-porcelain ware in the United States. Although primarily focused on plain white dinnerware, by 1873 the company had established an on-site decorating room in order to facilitate a growing demand for decorated ceramics.

Condition

Good Overall - Gilding nearly gone

Dimensions

13.25” x 10” x 1.5” (Width x Depth x Height)