American Middletown Plate Co. Aesthetic Movement Silverplate Fairy and Nautilus Bowl oil lamps Includes a 6-piece place setting

Includes a 6-piece place setting for (12) and (12) serving pieces with with (6) extra teaspoons and (1) extra butter knife

School logo embossed (front cover)

Favrile / X322

/The Art Institute of Chicago

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American Middletown Plate Co. Aesthetic Movement Silverplate Fairy and Nautilus Bowl oil lamps Includes a 6-piece place settingDETAILS An antique fruit and nut bowl modelled as a large nautilus shell with an exaggerated opening, set upon four stylized coral feet, the shell surmounted by a cast and applied fairy seated upon a crescent moon. STYLE Victorian Aesthetic Movement PATTERN LITERATURE Edmund P. Hogan, The Elegance of Old Silverplate and some Personalities, 1980, p. 62, illustrated. MAKER Middletown Plate Company (Middletown, Connecticut, 1864 1921) (Subsidiary of