3 Desert Rose Cup Sets
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 171 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
THREE FRANCISCAN DESERT ROSE CUP AND SAUCER SETS - EARLY GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. BACKSTAMP Offered here are three Franciscan Desert Rose cup and saucer sets in hand-decorated California earthenware, six pieces total. Each footed cup carries the pattern's signature molded and hand-painted branch handle, formed as a thorny rose stem in olive green, with open pink wild roses, closed buds, and glossy green leaves wrapping the outside of the cup. The matching saucers repeat the border on a molded scalloped rim, with a recessed cup ring in the center and a soft green-brown thorn vine following the rim edge. The saucers carry the earlier Gladding, McBean & Co. dotted-oval backstamp in brown rather than the later Interpace mark, which is the older and generally more collected version of the mark on this pattern. These sets coordinate directly with the Desert Rose dinner plates, bowls, and serving pieces offered elsewhere in this sale, so a bidder can build out or complete a service across multiple lots. Sold as a lot of six pieces, three cups and three saucers. Description Three (3) Franciscan Desert Rose cups and three (3) matching saucers, glazed earthenware, hand decorated Cups are the standard footed teacup form with a flared bowl, short pedestal foot, and the pattern's sculpted branch handle molded as a thorny rose stem and painted in olive to sage green Each cup measures approximately 2-1/4 inches tall to the rim and approximately 3-3/4 to 4 inches across the mouth per the tape-measure photographs; the tape was laid vertically alongside one cup and horizontally across the cup mouth. Width across the handle was not measured with the tape Saucers are round with a molded scalloped and wavy rim edge and measure approximately 6 inches in diameter per the tape-measure photographs; saucer depth and cup-ring diameter were not measured with the tape. Bidders should verify all dimensions from the photographs Cup decoration is a single open pink five-petal rose with a yellow center dotted in dark brown on the front, flanked by green leaves and thorny brown-olive stems, with a closed pink bud on the opposite side; cup interiors are plain cream white Saucer decoration is the standard Desert Rose border of open roses, buds, leaves, and a continuous thorny vine following the rim, with the plain cream well and recessed cup ring left undecorated Rim edges carry the characteristic soft green-brown wash along the scalloped border Saucer backstamp, photographed close up and enhanced, reads in a brown dotted oval: the company name across the top of the ring, partially struck and reading as GLADDING, McBEAN & CO., with MADE IN U.S.A. across the bottom of the ring, a small and at upper right, and inside the oval the script Franciscan over EARTHENWARE. A single small letter, reading as R, sits directly beneath the oval, and a faint lighter line of characters below that reads approximately H 1 2 with two additional indistinct characters Cup mark is a small, lig
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