Coiffe & Co. Limoge Celery Dish

Danckert has this mark listed as Coiffe & Co.(1873)-Emile Coiffe & Co.(1877-79)-Coiffe, Touron & Simon(1880)-Coiffe & Touron(1888)-Coiffe(1892)-Coiffe & Laviolette(1895)-Lavioltte(1896)

At the earliest this (approx) 14" x 6" celery dish is 144 years old or youngest 121 years old with no damage. My question is what kind of flowers or whatever they are? I was thinking maybe Camellias but I'm not certain. Also would you list it as Coiffe & Co. Limoge France Celery Dish with Gold Trim or would also try to put Touron Simon & Laviolette in the title? I'll check back later as I'm not getting notifications.






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I’m wondering they are small/immature pine cones.

 

Kent, especially with the green coloring, I was thinking about pine cones, too - but then, what about the leaves? No pine needles?

Then I thought (maybe?) some of those tight little rosebuds, sort of like these?

... but then again, they don't quite look right, either...

I'm stumped!

 

Berries, perhaps? For some reason they seem to be using a rather limited color palette.
Don

 

One note: There should be an "s" at the end of Limoge.
Don

 

Although it doesn't make sense to put them on a celery/relish dish, they look like hops to me.

 

Bit of a stumper because I think the colour palette does make ID difficult. A little too short and round for hops, but right colour. If pine cones as I first thought, then there should be pine or fir tree needles, not leaves. Berries?

 

They look like hop bells to me too, and hop leaves. Can't see very well, are there other flowers as well, poppy or anemone?
Very pretty.

 

Thanks for the replies. Hops seems to be the consensus of a few. Hops did cross my mind but I wasn't familiar with the leaves.

Thanks Don for the reminder. I may have or may not have caught that when I list it

 

Brussel sprouts?

 

They grow on stalks:

 

Looks like Clover to me.
There are different types with different leaf structure.

https://www.google.com/search?q=clo...HWaKDQkQ9C8IHw&biw=1418&bih=872&dpr=1#imgrc=_

Arrowleaf Clover
https://www.google.com/search?q=arr...l7_YAhWJ5IMKHZzbCCsQ_AUICigB&biw=1418&bih=872

 

Why are the pictures not enlarging lately when I click on them?

So, after saving it to desktop and enlarging it, I'll go with my first impression and agree with cluttered - it's clover.

 

I'm having the same problem.

 

I have found that when I use a "resize" program to bring photos down to an acceptable size for this forum, they are never "enlargeable" here.

I have no idea why!

 

I'm curious ... how does one know that this is a celery dish?

Was celery such a delicacy as to have a dedicated dish?

Or is that a generic name for this shape dish?

I'm not doubting you, just interested to learn.

 

Celery was a hard to get item in Victorian times so it was considered worthy of its own dish. It was hard to grow and only available at certain times of the year. This is not to say that the dish couldn't have been used for other purposes but "celery dish" showed aspirations to the upper classes. Relish and pickle dishes tend to be the same shape but smaller. Relishes were roughly 6" and celery dishes were greater than about 8". In pattern glass celery dishes were replaced (mostly) by celery vases. JMHO - others may have different measurement standards. Hope that helps!
Don

 

Thank you for your detailed, and interesting, reply.