3 Franciscan Desert Rose Dinner Plates
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 192 |
| 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 HAND-PAINTED DINNER PLATES - GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. OVAL MARK A second group of three Franciscan Desert Rose dinner plates in hand-painted California earthenware, each with the scalloped and swirled rim and a wide molded border of open pink wild roses with speckled yellow centers, closed pink buds, deep green paired leaves, and a thorny olive-brown vine, all in raised relief under a glossy ivory glaze. The painting on these three is a touch softer and lighter than on some of the other Desert Rose lots in this sale, with paler pink washes in the petals, clean feathered thorn strokes along the vine, and a soft olive wash carried over the scalloped rim edge. The stack count of three was confirmed by counting three distinct rim bands along the lower edge of the stacked profile photograph. One plate was turned over for its backstamp, and the enhanced close-up reads the brown dotted oval with GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. in the top ring, quoted in full below, which places these plates before the Interpace corporate change of the early 1960s. Desert Rose is the best-selling American dinnerware pattern ever produced, so these plates are an easy fill-in against an existing service, and they also display well upright in a hutch or on a plate rail. The rims show wear to the vine wash along the scalloped edge and scattered dark glaze specks, and one rim point shows a small surface irregularity, all described in the condition section below. These plates run alongside the other Desert Rose lots in this sale, including the other dinner plate lots, salad and bread plates, saucers, cup and saucer sets, fruit and dessert bowls, serving and vegetable bowls, the oval platter, the divided dish and gravy set, the cookie jar, the bud vase, and the wine goblets. Sold as a lot of three plates. Description Three (3) Franciscan Desert Rose dinner plates, glazed earthenware, round with a scalloped and gently swirled rim and a shallow molded well Each plate measures approximately 10-1/2 inches in diameter per the tape-measure photograph. The tape is laid across the face with the hook end resting on the table above the rim rather than hooked against the plate edge, and the camera sits above the center, so the diameter should be read as a close estimate only. Plate thickness and well depth were not measured with the tape, and bidders should verify all dimensions from the photographs Count of three confirmed by counting three separate rim bands along the lower edge of the stacked profile photograph Decoration is the Desert Rose border in raised relief: five-petal open pink roses with oval yellow centers speckled in dark green, closed pink buds, paired green leaves in two tones, and a continuous thorny olive to brown vine, with the vine wash carried over the scalloped outer rim edge. Petal washes are lighter and more transparent on these plates than on some of the other Desert Rose lots offered here, with individual brush striations clearly visible
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