4 Grape Dinner Plates
Updated September 5, 2026
| Lot number | 239 |
| Auction | Hancock Estate Auction |
| Date | September 25, 2026 at 9:30 AM CDT |
| Auction house | Harrison Auction & Realtor |
| Location | Gracemont, Oklahoma |
25-Character Title 4 Grape Dinner Plates (22) Alternates: 4 Metlox Dinner Plates (22) 4 Sculptured Grape Dinner (25) Grape 10in Dinners Set 4 (24) HiBid DESCRIPTION FOUR METLOX POPPYTRAIL SCULPTURED GRAPE DINNER PLATES - 10-1/2 INCH Four vintage California earthenware dinner plates in the Sculptured Grape pattern by Metlox Poppytrail. Each plate has a scalloped edge and the pattern's wide embossed border of blue grape clusters, deep green and sage-green grape leaves, curling brown tendrils, and small yellow-gold blossom sprigs, hand-painted over the raised relief on an off-white ground, with a soft brown-olive line following the scalloped rim. The centers are plain with faint throwing rings. These are the full-size dinner plates in the pattern, the hardest size to find in quantity, and they match the other Sculptured Grape lots offered separately in this sale, including the cups and cup and saucer sets, the salad and bread plates, the large oval platter, the round serving bowl, the gravy and butter pieces, the creamer and sugar, and the shakers. These plates have seen real table use: all four show heavy overall crazing in the center wells with brown and amber staining following the crazing lines, along with utensil scratching, and the rim line is rubbed thin in places. They will still serve, and they display well face-out on a plate rack or wall where the border shows and the well does not, but bidders wanting pristine plates should look at the smaller-size lots instead. Sold as a lot of four plates. Description Four dinner plates with scalloped rims and raised grape, leaf, tendril, and blossom borders in relief; plain centers. Glazed earthenware, hand-painted over the embossed decoration; plain glazed white undersides with a broad low foot ring. Each measures approximately 10-1/2 inches in diameter per the tape-measure photograph. The tape hook is resting on top of the plate rim rather than hooked over the edge, so the figure is a close estimate and the true rim-to-rim measurement may read slightly larger. Bidders should verify all dimensions from the photographs. The undersides carry the script backstamp reading "HAND PAINTED - Sculptured Grape - Poppytrail by METLOX - MADE IN CALIF. U.S.A." with two small lines of finer text between that appear to read "Safe in oven and dishwasher Durable". The script "Poppytrail" line is smeared and doubled in printing and the fine-print lines are only partly legible, so those readings are given as best interpretation rather than certainty. Attribution note Metlox Pottery operated in Manhattan Beach, California, founded in 1927 by T. C. Prouty and his son Willis Prouty, first making outdoor ceramic signs and then producing dinnerware under the Poppytrail name from the early 1930s until the plant closed in 1989. Replacements, Ltd. catalogs this pattern as Sculptured Grape by Metlox in the Poppytrail-Vernon line, discontinued, with production running roughly from 1963 to 1986, describing it as rais
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