Franciscan Desert Rose Divided Dish
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 200 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
FRANCISCAN DESERT ROSE DIVIDED OVAL VEGETABLE DISH - GLADDING, McBEAN & CO., HAND-PAINTED CALIFORNIA EARTHENWARE A single Franciscan Desert Rose divided oval vegetable serving dish in the pattern's creamy ivory ground, with hand-painted pink open roses, pink rosebuds, green leaves, and tan-brown thorny branch vines around the interior and exterior rim, finished with the pattern's brushed green rim edge. The form is a wide oval with a scalloped, gently ruffled rim and a raised molded center divider that splits the well into two equal compartments - the standard serving piece for putting two vegetables, two relishes, or a vegetable and a starch on the table in one dish. The underside carries the brown dotted-oval Gladding, McBean & Co. Franciscan Earthenware backstamp, placing it in the earlier California production era before the Interpace mark change. The relief-molded roses stand proud of the surface and the hand-painted brushwork varies piece to piece, which is part of the appeal of this pattern to collectors. It serves well as an everyday piece and displays well on a hutch shelf or plate stand. This lot pairs with the other Franciscan Desert Rose lots offered in this sale, including the dinner and bread plate lots, the saucer lot, the cup and saucer sets, the fruit and dessert bowls, the serving and vegetable bowls, the oval platter, the divided dish and gravy set, the covered butter dish and shakers, the two pitchers, the sugar, creamer and celery tray lot, the cookie jar, the bud vase, and the wine goblets. Sold as a lot of 1 piece. Description Divided oval vegetable dish, wide shallow oval form with a scalloped and slightly ruffled rim, a raised molded divider running the short way across the center, and two equal serving compartments. Long axis measures approximately 10-1/2 to 11 inches and the short axis approximately 8 inches per the tape-measure photographs. On both overhead measuring shots the tape hook plate rests on the table above the rim rather than hooked on the edge of the dish, and the camera is looking down at an angle, so both of these figures should be treated as close estimates rather than exact readings. Bidders should verify all dimensions from the photographs. Overall height measures approximately 2-1/4 inches per the profile tape-measure photograph. The hook again rests on the table beside the dish rather than on the piece, so this figure is likewise a close estimate. Decoration: two large open roses and rosebud clusters at each end of the interior rim, leaves and branch vine carried around the full rim, matching roses and leaves on the exterior wall, and a brushed olive-green line along the scalloped rim edge. Molded relief on the flowers and leaves, hand-painted in the pattern's pink, yellow, green, and brown palette. Mark: brown dotted-oval backstamp with GLADDING, McBEAN & CO. around the top ring, Franciscan in script over EARTHENWARE, a small , and MADE IN U.S.A. along the bottom ring, with a struck character
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