We are very pleased to present this second of Two hand painted ca. 1910 Limoges wall plaques, nicely decorated by Registered Limoges Artist, Arvy. This handsome wall plaque has a nicely sculpted, scalloped and gilded rim, and it features gorgeous colors depicting a lovely woods, stream cottage, and meadow scene by moonlight. Arvy was a well known landscape painter for several of the Limoges firms, including Charles Ahrenfeldt, Charles J Ahrenfeldt, and Touze, Lemaitre Freres & Blancher (T.L.B.) into the 1920s. These wall plaques date between 1905 and 1915, and are in excellent condition. This Limoges prize weighs 1# 10 oz. and sits 10.75 x 10.75 x 1.25 inches deep. Research consulted: Collectors Encyclopedia of Limoges Porcelain 3rd Ed. / by Mary Frank Gaston; The Decorative Art of Limoges Porcelain & Boxes / by Keith & Thomas Waterbrook-Clyde; Living With Limoges, Antique Limoges At Home, Collecting Hand Painted Limoges Porcelain (Boxes to Vases), and Antique Trader Limoges Price Guide / all by Debby DuBay; La Porcelaine de Limoges (Paris Edition) / by Jean D Albis and Celeste Romanet; Old Limoges. xxxxxxxxxxxxx. Charles Ahrenfeldt (1807-94) was born in Germany. He began importing porcelain into New York City in the 1830s. During the 1840s he moved to Paris and had a decorating studio. Sometime between 1859 and the late 1860s he established an exporting firm in Limoges and developed a wide export market, especially to North America. Around 1884 he also started decorating porcelain in Limoges. Possibly around this time he established started his porcelain factory. The son Charles J. Ahrenfeldt (1856-1934) took over this porcelain factory in 1894, upon the father’s passing. In 1896 he built a porcelain factory in the Montjovis district of Limoges.M. Grob took over the factory in 1917. Grob was mentioned as manager of the new factory from 1896, and he is also mentioned as the company’s Zurich agent, possibly before 1896. The company made high quality porcelain shortly after 1900, but continued to hand paint others white ware blanks. Ahrenfeldt quality was so special, that it won the Grand Prix at the Art Deco Exposition in 1925. The factory was enlarged in 1926. Grob passed in 1934 and was succeeded by his widow. A finance group bought the factory in 1958, production diminished, and the factory closed in 1969.

Excellent condition