Name/Title
plate, luncheonEntry/Object ID
2017.018.001Description
Plate, luncheon. Set of plates and matching cups. Noritake "Azalea" pattern. C.1925. A-H: kidney-shaped plate; raised rim; raised circle at center to hold cup, small molded handle. White body is decorated with pink azaleas. Underside unglazed. No marks. .5" x 8.5" x 7.25". I-P: cups; round body, footed with attached handle. White body is decorated with pink azaleas; gold band around rim and down center of handle. Maker's mark is red; NORITAKE over an M in a wreath; below wreath is HANDPAINTED MADE IN JAPAN 19322. 4" x 3.375" x 1.875". Larkin catalog #39.Acquisition
Accession
2017.018Source or Donor
Zumbrun, Phyllis J.Acquisition Method
GiftGeneral Notes
Note
Belonged to donor’s grandmother, Laura Adella Barber Rill (1 November 1864 - 15 February 1945). She was the wife of George W. Rill. After her death it passed to her daughter, Mary Monzie Rill [Zumbrun] (10 January 1900 - 23 November 1990. After Mary’s death it passed to her daughter, the donor.
The Larkin Company, also known as the Larkin Soap Company, was a company founded in 1875 in Buffalo, New York, as a small soap factory. It grew tremendously throughout the late 1800s and into the first quarter of the 1900s with an approach called "The Larkin Idea" that transformed the company into a mail-order conglomerate that employed 2,000 people and had annual sales of $28.6 million in 1920. The Azalea pattern was produced only for the Larkin Company. They gave the Azalea pattern away as premiums to the club members and their home agents. Azalea was made between 1916 and 1930