Franciscan Desert Rose Gravy Boat
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 175 |
| Category | Vehicles & Automotive |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
FRANCISCAN DESERT ROSE GRAVY BOAT WITH MATCHING OVAL UNDERPLATE - GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. A handsome two-piece Franciscan Desert Rose gravy service consisting of the double-lipped pedestal gravy boat and its matching scalloped oval underplate. The boat has the classic sauce-boat profile with a pinched spout at each end, a swept upward-curving rim, and a stepped oval pedestal foot, decorated on both sides with the pattern's hand-painted roses - one side showing a fully opened pink wild rose with a dotted yellow center, the other a large closed pink bud - carried on a brown thorny vine with two-tone green leaves. The oval underplate repeats the leafy vine around a molded scalloped rim with the pattern's olive-brown rim wash, and its center is left plain to seat the boat. The underplate carries the earlier brown Gladding, McBean & Co. dotted-oval backstamp, placing this service in the older California-made period of the pattern rather than the later Interpace years. Serving pieces are always the harder part of a Desert Rose service to assemble, and this gravy boat coordinates with the Desert Rose dinner plates, bowls, cup and saucer sets, platter, and other serving pieces offered elsewhere in this sale. Excellent for holiday table use or china cabinet display. Description Gravy boat with matching oval underplate, Franciscan Desert Rose pattern, glazed earthenware Boat form: elongated oval sauce boat with a pinched pouring lip at each end, an upswept and gently waved rim, and a stepped oval pedestal foot; no handle, as made for this pattern Boat measures approximately 3-1/2 inches tall as it sits on the underplate and approximately 8-1/2 inches from spout tip to spout tip per the tape-measure photographs. The tape was laid in front of and alongside the pieces rather than pressed against them, so bidders should treat these as close estimates and verify all dimensions from the photographs Underplate measures approximately 9 inches long and approximately 6-1/4 inches wide per the tape photographs; the underplate's rim depth and the boat's interior depth were not measured with the tape Decoration on the boat: an opened five-petal pink rose with an elongated yellow center dotted in dark brown on one face, a large closed pink bud on the reverse, both on a brown thorny branch with broad green leaves in two tones and small green sepals; pedestal foot and interior are plain cream Decoration on the underplate: green leaves and brown vine following the molded scalloped rim with the pattern's olive to brown rim wash, at least one pink bud visible on the border, plain cream center well with soft shaping rings Underplate underside is fully glazed white with a recessed oval foot ring and small round stilt or kiln-support points, which are normal firing artifacts of the manufacturing process rather than damage Underplate backstamp, photographed close up, reads in a brown dotted oval: GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. around the upper ring and MADE IN U.S.A. down the
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