4 Franciscan Desert Rose Plates
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 193 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
FOUR FRANCISCAN DESERT ROSE BREAD AND BUTTER PLATES - GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. OVAL MARK Four matching Franciscan Desert Rose bread and butter plates in hand-painted California earthenware, each with the scalloped and swirled rim, a shallow molded well, and the pattern's border of open pink wild roses with speckled yellow centers, closed pink buds, paired green leaves, and a thorny olive-brown vine, all carried in raised relief under a glossy ivory glaze. On this small size the border wraps nearly the full rim, so the plates read as very decorative for their footprint and they show off the relief modeling well. The stack count of four was confirmed by counting four separate 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. clearly legible in the top ring, quoted in full below, which places these plates before the Interpace corporate change of the early 1960s. Plates this size are the ones most often broken or lost out of a service, so a matched group of four is a useful fill-in, and they also work as bread, dessert, appetizer, or cheese plates and as ring or trinket dishes on a dresser. Wear to the vine wash along the scalloped rim edge and scattered dark glaze specks are present and are described in the condition section below. These plates run alongside the other Desert Rose lots in this sale, including the dinner plate lots, 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 four plates. Description Four Franciscan Desert Rose bread and butter plates, glazed earthenware, round with a scalloped and gently swirled rim, a shallow molded well, and a recessed foot ring Each plate measures approximately 6-1/4 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 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. Painting is soft and clean, with visible brush striations in the petals and finely feathered thorn strokes Backstamp on the plate photographed and enhanced reads, in the brown dotted oval, GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. curved along the top ring, Franciscan in script over EARTHENWARE at the center, the copyright and registered symbols beneath, and MADE IN U.S.A. curved along the
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