Nuts and Autumn Leaves Porcelain Plate

Pickard Nut Harvest Porcelain Plate

C3661. Fine Pickard Studio decorated Nuts and Autumn Leaves or Nut Harvest porcelain plate, artist signed by Jeremiah Vokral, using a French LImoges blank richly painted in tone of brown and gold, a harvest of nuts and oak leaves within a richly molded metallic-gold border.

The signature of the individual artist “Vokräl” appears in dark-red just above the metallic-gold border. A black-and-white photograph of this signature is shown on page 68 of Reed's Collector's Encyclopedia of Pickard China, attributed by the author to Jeremiah Vokral. According to Reed, Vokral was born in Prague, Bohemia, attending the Prague Industrial Art School and apprenticing at the decorating studios of Rudolph Fritsche and Thein before coming to the United States where he was employed by Pickard Decorating Studios in Chicago from 1898 to 1922, specializing in the Nut Harvest or Nuts and Autumn Leaves pattern which is so beautifully rendered on this plate.

The reverse of the plate has an underglaze printed with a dark green colored maker mark, a light brown overglaze printed decorator mark. The underglaze printed maker mark is composed of a patent inscription "Patd. March. 9th 1909," arching over the country of origin "France." The overglaze printed decorator mark composed of a 13/32" diameter light brown colored overglaze decal composed of two concentric circles, the inner circle containing "Pickard" centered between "w" and "a," and in between the two circles is "Hand Painted" centered above "China." This mark is shown as mark #5 of "Pickard Trademarks" listed on pages 71-73 of Reed's Encyclopedia ofPickard China, and attributed to the Ravenswood location of Pickard Studios in Chicago, Illinois, c. 1905-1910. Therefore, based on the dating for the maker mark and the decorator mark, the plate must have been made in France after 1909 and decorated by Pickard Studios in Chicago before 1910. Pickard’s Nut Harvest pattern is shown on plate 272 of Reed’s Collector's Encyclopedia of Pickard China. In general, the pattern is executed in Earthen tones of brown, a depiction of various nuts accompanied by massed leaves against a shaded ground. Measures 8.25" diameter. (KC1) $135.00.


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