ALCYONE GUEST HOUSE NEW ORLEANS HOTEL RESTAURANT WARE CHINA PLATE The COLUMNS. THIS MONTH, WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER MANY FINE ANTIQUE AND COLLECTIBLE ARTIFACTS AND RARITIES FROM MISSISSIPPI AND LOUISIANA ESTATES AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS. FROM AN OLD AN PROMINENT NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA ESTATE, A RARE EXAMPLE OF RESTAURANT WARE CHINA, ONCE USED TO SERVE GUESTS AT THE ALCYONE GUEST HOUSE IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. THE ALCYONE PENSION DE FAMILLE (GUESTHOUSE) WAS LOCATED AT 3811 ST. CHARLES AVENUE IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, AND TODAY, KNOWN BETTER AS THE COLUMNS, AND EXTRAORDINARY HOTEL AND EVENT VENUE BUILT IN 1883 AS A PRIVATE RESIDENCE, THE MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE WAS CONVERTED, BECOMING A BOARDING HOUSE, THE ALCYONE, DURING WORLD WAR I. IN 1953, A LOCAL FAMILY TURNED IT INTO A HOTEL AND THE BAR ON THE PORCH BECAME A STAR. A SALAD OR SIDE PLATE, MEASURING 8 IN DIAMETER, FEATURING A BAND OF ACORNS AND OAK LEAVES TO THE RAISED FLANGE BORDER, ALONG WITH A STYLIZED LETTERED BANNER READING. A REMARKABLY WELL PRESERVED EXAMPLE PERHAPS TYPICAL AND MINOR ELEMENTS REALTIVE TO AGE AND MATERIAL OVERALL FINE, VINTAGE CONDITION BEST NOTED BY EXAMINING THE IMAGES OFFERED. HISTORY IROQUOIS CHINA COMPANY. Iroquois China Company was founded in 1905 in Solvay, New York, located on the western border of Syracuse near the southern shores of Onondaga Lake. It operated in Syracuse until closing. Although some references indicate that the company closed in 1969, certain designs e. Seibel also designed a line called Impromptu[1] the first designs were Bridal White, Frolic, Vision, Jardinieres, Pins and Beads, Were Current in 1956, New Geometric Patterns like, Parasols and Pyramids. Other abstract patterns included Aztec, Fjord, Tiara, Pompon, Tiara, Pompon Garland and El Camino. Later other patterns such as were added: Grapes, Pyramids, and Beige Rose. SOME HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans was founded by the French in 1718 and has played an important role in the history of the United States. The city was named in honor of Philip II, Duke of Orl, who was regent and ruler of France when the city was founded (much as New York was named in honor of James, Duke of York, heir to the throne of England). The city’s several nicknames describe various characteristics of the city, including the “Crescent City” (describing its shape around the Mississippi River), “The Big Easy” (a reference by musicians to the relative ease of finding work in the city) and “The City that Care Forgot” (associated with the easy going, carefree nature of many of the local residents). The city’s unofficial motto, “Laissez les bons temps rouler” (“Let the good times roll”) describes the party-like attitude of many residents. New Orleans was founded in 1718 by the French as La Nouvelle-Orl, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. The site was selected because it was a rare bit of natural high ground along the flood-prone banks of the lower Mississippi, and was adjacent to a Native American trading route and portage between the Mississippi and Lake Pontchartrain via Bayou St. John (known to natives as Bayou Choupique). A community of French fur trappers and traders had existed along the bayou (in what is now the middle of New Orleans) for more than a decade before the official founding of the city. Nouvelle-Orlbecame the capital of French Louisiana in 1722, replacing Biloxi. In 1763, the colony was ceded to the Spanish Empire and remained under Spanish control for 40 years. The Great Fire of 1788 destroyed many of the existing structures in the city (800 houses were destroyed), which were made of wood. As a result of this, and a subsequent fire in 1795 (another 200 houses destroyed), much of 18th century architecture still present in the French Quarter was built under Spanish rule and demonstrates Spanish colonial characteristics, wood was replaced with bricks. The three most impressive buildings of New Orleans come from the Spanish times: St. Louis Cathedral, New Orleans, the Cabildo and the Presbytere. In 1795, Spain granted the United States “Right of Deposit” in New Orleans, allowing Americans to use the city’s port facilities. Louisiana reverted to French control in 1801 after Napoleon re-acquired the territory from Spain by treaty. At this time the city of New Orleans had a population of about 10,000. In its early days it was noted for its cosmopolitan polyglot population and mixture of cultures. The city grew rapidly, with influxes of Americans, French and Creole French, many of the latter fleeing from the revolution in Haiti. During the War of 1812 the British sent a force to try to conquer the city, but they were defeated by forces led by Andrew Jackson some miles down river from the city at Chalmette, Louisiana on January 8, 1815 (commonly known as the Battle of New Orleans). 1888 German map of New Orleans. The population of the city doubled in the 1830s, and by 1840 the city’s population was around 102,000, fourth-largest in the U. S, the largest city away from the Atlantic seaboard, as well as the largest in the South after Baltimore. However, population growth was at times plagued by yellow fever epidemics, such as the great scourge of 1853 that killed nearly 10,000 people in New Orleans. New Orleans was the capital of the state of Louisiana until 1849, then again from 1865 to 1880. As a principal port it had a leading role in the slave trade, while at the same time having North America’s largest community of free persons of color. Early in the American Civil War it was captured by the Union (by David Farragut -son of Spanish emigrants- later named the first US Navy Vice-Admiral) without a battle, and hence was spared the destruction suffered by many other cities of the American South. It was the first captured city in the American South. It retains a historical flavor with a wealth of 19th century structures far beyond the early colonial city boundaries of the French Quarter. The city hosted the 1884 World’s Fair, called the World Cotton Centennial. An important attraction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the famous red light district called Storyville. Much of the city is located below sea level between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, so the city is surrounded by levees. Until the early 20th century, construction was largely limited to the slightly higher ground along old natural river levees and bayous, since much of the rest of the land was swampy and subject to frequent flooding. This gave the 19th century city the shape of a crescent along a bend of the Mississippi, the origin of the nickname The Crescent City. In the 1910s engineer and inventor A. Baldwin Wood enacted his ambitious plan to drain the city, including large pumps of his own design which are still used. All rain water must be pumped up to the canals which drain into Lake Pontchartrain. Wood’s pumps and drainage allowed the city to expand greatly in area. However, pumping of groundwater from underneath the city has resulted in subsidence. The subsidence greatly increased the flood risk, should the levees be breached or precipitation be in excess of pumping capacity (as was the case in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina). There were many warnings in the late 20th century that a major hurricane or a Mississippi flood could create a lake in the central city as much as 9 m (30 ft) deep, which could take months to pump dry. This warning was augmented by vestigial fears from Hurricane Betsy, and the lasting stories of the Army Corps of Engineers blasting the flooding levees, drowning the poorer neighborhoods of the lower ninth Ward. The Holy Cross Neighborhood Association, (HCNA) respresenting a substantial group of the aforementioned lower ninth ward, created a lobby against the Army Corps of Engineers furthering work on the levees which might endanger the neighborhoods. The HCNA sent Jamal Morelli, activist and New Orleans artist, to respresent them in Washington, D. Jamal Morelli’s struggle for the neighborhood was successful in protecting the lower ninth ward. In 1905 Yellow Fever was reported in the city, which had suffered under repeated epidemics of the disease in the previous century. As the role of mosquitos in spreading the disease was newly understood, the city embarked on a massive campaign to drain, screen, or oil all cisterns and standing water (breeding ground for mosquitos) in the city and educate the public on their vital role in preventing mosquitos. The effort was a success and the disease was stopped before reaching epidemic proportions. President Theodore Roosevelt visited the city to demonstrate the safety of New Orleans. The city has had no cases of Yellow Fever since. New Orleans was hit by major storms in the 1909 Atlantic hurricane season and the 1915 Atlantic hurricane season. In the 1920s an effort to “modernize” the look of the city removed the old cast-iron balconies from Canal Street, the city’s commercial hub. In the 1960s another “modernization” effort replaced the Canal Streetcar Line with buses. The suburbs saw great growth in the second half of the 20th century; the largest suburb today is Metairie, which borders New Orleans to the west. Metairie is not incorporated and is a part of Jefferson Parish. Much of the city flooded in September of 1947 due to the 1947 Fort Lauderdale Hurricane. In 1965 the city was damaged by Hurricane Betsy, with catastrophic flooding of the city’s Lower 9th Ward. In 1969 the city was brushed by Hurricane Camille but was spared from the catastrophic flooding it had seen in Hurricane Betsy and later in Hurricane Katrina. Because of Camille’s tightly wound rings, the storm actually pulled water from the then impending fate they believed was imminent from Lake Ponchartrain and Lake Borgne, and veered toward her landfall point, approximately 50 miles away at Pass Christian, Mississippi, which is believed to have received a 28 foot storm surge. While long one of the USA’s most-visited cities, tourism boomed in the last quarter of the 20th century, becoming a major force in the local economy. Areas of the French Quarter and Central Business District which were long oriented towards local residential and business uses switched to largely catering to the domestic and international tourist industry. A century after the Cotton Centennial Exhibition, New Orleans hosted another World’s Fair, the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition. The city experienced severe flooding in the May 8th 1995 Louisiana Flood when heavy rains suddenly dumped over a foot of water on parts of town faster than the pumps could remove the water. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina and Rita ravaged the city again with floodwaters and high winds, killing thousands. Restaurant ware, also called hotel china, refers to plates and bowls, cups and saucers, and smaller items such as creamers and monkey dishes that were made especially for use in commercial settings. Potteries such as Buffalo, Jackson, Shenango, Wallace, Syracuse, Tepco, and Homer Laughlin are some of the best known manufacturers of restaurant ware, which is generally heavier than dinnerware produced for the home. Some of the most collected types of restaurant ware include airbrushed pieces, Western and floral themes (wagon wheels and palm trees are equally popular), and plates bearing an establishments logo. In the United States, the proliferation of restaurant ware paralleled that of railroad china, both of which became widespread in the second half of the 19th century, thanks to the efforts of entrepreneurs like George Pullman and Fred Harvey. It was a time when railroads tied the nation together, knotted here and there by growing cities and luxurious stopovers. Guests staying at, or merely dining in, the hotels that catered to this new cohort of domestic travelers were often treated like royalty, to encourage these early adopters, as we might call them today, to spread the word. One of the earliest companies to make dinnerware for the growing hospitality industry was the Syracuse China Company. Founded in 1871, Syracuse introduced a new line of heavy, chip-resistant dinnerware called Round Edge in 1896. For its part, Shenango Pottery produced nothing but commercial china from 1909 until 1935. Around the same time, in 1932, the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Railroad hired Buffalo Pottery Company to make a special set of china in honor of George Washingtons 200th birthday. Sporting lavish gold rims, the plates in the set featured a reproduction of Gilbert Stuarts Athenaeum portrait of George Washington in their centers. For Buffalo, the gamble apparently paid off, as it was soon producing custom china for the Greenbriar Hotel in West Virginia, fighter Jack Dempseys restaurant in New York City, The Awahnee in Yosemite National Park, and the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Less highfalutin is the restaurant ware made by companies like Anchor Hocking, which produced its glass Fire-King line from 1948 until 1967 for restaurants, schools, and the U. Fire-King brands included a green Jadeite, blue Azurite, and an opaque white ware called Anchorwhite. Homer Laughlin got a slightly later start in restaurant ware (1959), while Red Wing did not introduce its hotel line until the 1960s. Like its competitors, Red Wing manufactured everything from salt and pepper shakers to gravy boats, as well as special lobster dishes, single-service teapots, and ashtrays. And then there was Tepco, which was established in Livermore, California, in 1918 by an Italian immigrant named John Pagliero, but is probably best known for the commercial china it produced after World War II. When Pagliero first set up shop in his backyard, he pressed and fired all his porcelain himself, but by 1947, Tepco-the shortened nickname for the companys cumbersome, official name, the Technical Porcelain and China Ware Company-offered more than 50 lines, from airbrushed pieces to transferware. Tepcos plates, bowls, coffee cups, and pitchers were heavy and thick, with large flat rims that lent themselves to patterns and decorations. Interestingly, and despite its founders Italian roots, many of Tepcos most popular designs were Western in nature, with names like Wagon Wheel and Ox-Head. Themes from California history, from the Spanish Missions to the Gold Rush, also filled the Tepco catalog, while the company also trafficked in appropriated styles that looked right at home in postwar tiki bars-Trader Vics commissioned numerous oversized mugs and goblets for its famous rum drinks. By 1968, though, John Pagliero had died at the age of 85, and the company he founded went out of business as plastic dinnerware like Melamine became increasingly popular. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Souvenirs & Travel Memorabilia\United States\Louisiana”. The seller is “ponyboynol” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Region of Origin: Louisiana
- Type: HOTEL RESTAURANT WARE
- QUANTITY: -1- EXAMPLE
