Antique Haviland Limoges Green Beauty Rose Chocolate Pot Gold France 13 Pieces

Antique Haviland Limoges Hand Painted Chocolate Pot Set Roses Gold France  Watermark circa 1894-1931  Hand painted Haviland Limoges chocolate set from the Victorian era, decorated with full blown pink and yellow roses and trailing thorny canes.  The porcelain shades from a soft ethereal green at the base into warm cream and ivory toward the rim, a delicate coloring that is difficult to find.  One of the most beautiful aspects of this particular set is the translucency, please see the collage of photographs of the pieces held up to a window light to see the quality of the porcelain.  The chocolate pot has a scalloped gilded spout, a domed lid crowned by a gold ribbon finial, and a sculpted green handle that twists like a branch.  Roses wrap the body and carry across the lid, the painting flowing without interruption from pot to cover.  Each cup flares gently from a narrow base and is finished with a gold rim and a green vine handle.  The painting on the cups and the saucers reads as one continuous composition when a cup is set in its saucer.  Included are the covered chocolate pot, five cups, and six saucers, so an additional saucer comes along with the set.  Every base carries the Haviland France backstamp.  No artist signature is present, though the hand work is masterfully done throughout.  Best kept as a display set rather than for serving, as the age and hand applied paint are of unknown composition.  Era  Victorian to 1900s  Maker  Haviland  Limoges, France  Measurements